1. Romney's "A Better Amercia"
"With Mitt" was supposed to be "a fun, easy way to showcase support" for the newly confirmed nominee, Romney digital director Zac Moffatt tells Mashable: Romney fans take a photo with their iPhone, choose one of 14 "I'm With Mitt" overlays — including "I'm a Mom for Mitt," "I Stand With Mitt," and, until it was fixed, "A Better Amercia" — then email the Mitt-framed photo to friends. Almost immediately after the app dropped, the mockery began, says Aaron Blake at The Washington Post. Twitter, especially, went haywire, as people mirthfully pondered "just what Amercia stood for and what kind of policies Romney had planned for Amercia."
2. Dan Quayle's "potatoe"
In one of the most notorious campaign flubs of all time, then–Vice President Quayle visited a New Jersey grade school in June 1992 to promote boss George H.W. Bush's education policy. Quayle gamely agreed to help judge the school's spelling bee, but when 12-year-old William Figueroa correctly spelled "potato," Quayle called him back and insisted the kid "add one little bit on the end," mouthing the letter "e." Quayle "later blamed a typo on the flashcard he had been handed by the teacher," says Ben Jacobs at The Daily Beast, but it was too late: The "potatoe" blunder had "left him a national laughingstock."
3. Rick Santorum's "pubic" schedule
In March, Santorum's campaign shot out an email advertising, in bold, uppercase letters: "MEDIA ADVISORY: SANTORUM'S PUBIC SCHEDULE." Accidentally leaving the "L" out of public is always amusing, even if it's an understandable error by "sleep-deprived staffers," says Grace Wyler at Business Insider. "But this gaffe is particularly unfortunate, given the candidate's strong opinions on all things pubic." Team Santorum sent out a corrected email about 15 minutes after the "pubic" one, without acknowledging the mistake.
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