“The Next President of the United States, Paul Ryan”

Prof. Ben Zimmer (Language Log) has an interesting post about this glitch — and its Obama/Biden analog from four years ago — with a stab at an explanation.

UPDATE: I hear Thomas Jefferson made a similar mistake, but it took a while to correct.

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