Tell me more ×  During the opening night of the Republican
National Convention, many speakers took to the podium and took
advantage of a phrase spoken by President Obama that some are
calling a grammatical error.  In a July 13 campaign appearance
in Virginia, the president told an audience:   At least that's
all the GOP would have you believe he said. The party has
repeatedly used just those two sentences in campaign materials.
In fact, the excerpt is part of a larger message:   In a video
released in late July, the Obama campaign says that "that"
refers to the compound noun "roads and bridges."  But as the
sentence is constructed (is that an em or an en dash?) mustn't
"that" refer to "business"?  And who put the dash in there? Is
it from an official transcript provided by Obama's team or was
the speech put into print by the press or the Romney campaign?
share|improve this question I think it is a bit sloppy of Obama.
He should have used those/them if he meant roads and bridges,
because now readers will auto