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

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Mike Huckabee
June 11, 2007

"Most of our prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo and less like the state prisons that people are in in the United States."

—Huckabee, defending the conditions at Guantanamo when asked about former Sec. of State Colin Powell's statement to close the controversial base.


— Katie Rooney


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