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 Geography Goof

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Barack Obama
Aug. 26, 2008

"Daddy, what city are you in?"

—Sasha Obama, Barack Obama's 7-year-old daughter, after the Democratic presidential nominee mistakenly announced during a live satellite interview at the Democratic National Convention that he was in St. Louis, Missouri when he was, in fact, several hours away in Kansas City.


— M.J. Stephey


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