The Screwups of Campaign '08
Presidential campaigns are so carefully stage-managed that few things are as entertaining as the mistakes politicians make on the trail. Throughout the 2008 race, check out TIME.com's ongoing chronicle of each candidate's gaffes, and then vote on just how big a screwup each one is
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John McCain
July 14, 2008
"I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia."
—John McCain, speaking during a media availability with reporters in Phoenix referring to the Czech Republic, which split into two distinct countries in 1993, as Czechoslovakia. McCain repeated the mistake the following day, though that same week Obama backer and former Senator Sam Nunn made the same error.
— Katie Rooney
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