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

Obama's Power Outage

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Former senior Obama forign policy advicor, Samantha Power

Barack Obama
March 7, 2008

"We f***** up in Ohio. In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win. She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything."

—Samantha Power, a senior Obama foreign policy adviser (and TIME contributor), in an interview with The Scotsman, a Scottish newspaper. She later apologized and resigned from the campaign.


— Katie Rooney


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