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

Richardson's Foul Ball

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Charlie Neibergall / AP

Bill Richardson
July 11, 2007

"I hit a photographer. I am a pull hitter. He should have gotten out of the way."

—Richardson, after hitting a line drive into right field and accidentally beaning a member of the press while visiting the site of the 1989 film Field of Dreams in Dyersville, IA.


— Katie Rooney


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