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

Huckabee's Belated Birthday Wish

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Mike Huckabee
June 5, 2007

"Today is the birthday of Ronald Reagan."

—Huckabee, during a GOP debate, when making a statement about terror and relating it to the Cold War. The date was actually the third anniversary of Reagan's death. Huckabee later called the mistake "an absolute error."

— Katie Rooney

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