Valgets 10 største øjeblikke (VIDEO)

Thinkprogress har samlet 10 uforglemmelige øjeblikke fra den amerikanske valgkamp 2012, her er et udpluk:

1) Oops. During a GOP primary debate in November 2011, Rick Perry struggled to name the three federal agencies he would eliminate as president. “Commerce, Education, and the — what’s the third one there?”

2) Marriage is like… While campaigning in Iowa, Rick Santorum repeatedly compared marriage equality to a napkin, not a paper towel; water, not beer; tea, not basketball; a tree, not a car:

5) Barbarians. Throughout the campaign, Michele Bachmann refused to comment on allegations that her husband’s Christian counseling clinics instruct gay patients that they could change his sexual orientation through therapy and prayer. Marcus Bachmann had previously referred to gays as ”barbarians”:

6) I am America. The classic Herman Cain ad features chief of staff Mark Block blowing smoke into the camera, Cain smiling, and the ballot “I Am America”:

7) Moon colony. In a speech ahead of Florida’s GOP presidential primary, Newt Gingrich made a bold pledge to establish a permanent U.S. base on the moon “by the end of my second term”:

Læs The 10 Greatest Moments Of The 2012 Campaign hos Thinkprogess.