13 embarrassing political typos [Updated]

President Obama's re-election campaign proves it's better at math than English, joining Mitt Romney in the mangled-spelling hall of fame

Mitt Romney in Las Vegas on May 29
(Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

President Obama hasn't always had the most cordial relationship with Congress, especially the Republican-led House. So maybe there was some subliminal animus in his re-election campaign's misspelling of the legislature's budget scorekeeper in a new video. Of course, Obama isn't the first politician, or even the first one in this presidential race, to have apparently turned off the spellchecker. Here, a look at Team Obama's flub, plus 12 other embarrassing political typos:

1. Obama and the "Congrssional Budget Office"

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