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

Clinton's Forwarding Firing

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Hillary Clinton
Dec. 5, 2007

"There is no place in our campaign, or any campaign, for this kind of politics."

—Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, after asking its coordinator for Iowa's Jones County, unidentified by name, to step down folllowing the revelation that the person had forwarded a chain e-mail to bloggers, others that said Barack Obama has Muslim ties.


— Katie Rooney


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