When Barack Obama was running for the Senate, an adviser showed him a file of damaging facts that Republicans had dug up about him. One was that he had voted against a bill "to protect our children from sex offenders". "Wait a minute," said Mr Obama. "I accidentally pressed the wrong button on that bill. I meant to vote aye, and had it immediately corrected in the official record." His adviser smiled: "Somehow I don't think that portion of the official record will make it into a Republican ad."
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