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Todd Akin’s new website had two typos before getting ‘you’re’ right

avatar by Published Aug. 21, 2012 6:54 pm Updated Aug. 21, 2012 6:55 pm

U.S. Rep. Todd Akin wants Missouri voters to stand with him against his opponent in the Senate race, Claire McCaskill. But he had a bit of trouble getting the request right.

First time:

Second time:

In this attempt to fix the misspelling of “you’re” there are two “R”s instead of one.

Third time was the charm:

Everything was spelled properly this time.

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  • Anonymous

    I just read a story about a Rethuglican politician named Doug Collins who’s running for Congress in Georgia. He beat out a Tea Party-endorsed candidate, so I checked his website to see if he was even more of a whack-job. While doing so, I read some of his policy positions, and almost every paragraph had a spelling error or confusing punctuation.