— John (@StuckInActive) May 30, 2012Running with the app’s intended usage, an inevitable tumblr blog featuring fun uses of the typo quickly emerged.Though the Romney Campaign wished it could “Etch-a-Sketch” its way out of the embarrassing self-promotion, their troubles didn’t end there. A few days later, it was besieged by spelling trouble again when it decided to offer up a “Sneak Peak” of its next television ad on Facebook:
While the campaign was befuddled by mistaken syntax errors, it also took on some controversy willingly. Romney embraced the support of one Donald Trump, despite his reluctance to let go of the “birther” conspiracy theory that US President Barack Obama was, in fact, born in Kenya. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer (formerly of Jerusalem Post fame) took Trump to task for his “ridiculous” position, and their heated debate became a viral Internet hit.Viral Video of the Week:While one would guess that Obama would be basking in the glow of these gaffes, the Democrat faced his own problems this week. The most recent jobs report showed slow growth, and pushed unemployment back up to 8.2 percent.The simple truth remains: the election will be decided on jobs. Despite his ability to pull massive star power to his campaign, hosting campaign fundraising events with the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker and Vogue editor Anna Wintour, BuzzFeed reported that 88% of the people who donated to Obama in 2008 did not contribute to him this election cycle.With polls running neck and neck, it looks like Mitt Romney is not the only one suffering a bad spell.Only in #Amercia could the Romney campaign also misspell sneak-peek. twitpic.com/9sjous
— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) June 3, 2012
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