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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Joe Biden
Oct. 15, 2008
"John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number one job facing the middle class and it happens to be — as Barack says — a three letter word. Jobs. J-O-B-S. Jobs."
—Biden making a basic counting error while speaking to voters in Athens, Ohio.
— Katie Rooney
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