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

Mistakes Were Made

Romney Double Downs on Gitmo

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Mitt Romney
May 15, 2007

"Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo."

—Romney, at a South Carolina Republican debate, voicing support for Guantanamo's controversial "enemy combatant" program


— Ana Marie Cox


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