Ticket sales for a 280-person event held at a West Des Moines country club amounted to $2 million — a state record, according to Romney’s Iowa campaign co-chairman. However, the success ended up a overshadowed by Romney repeated mispronunciation of the word "Sikh" as "sheik" while speaking about the victims of Sunday's shooting in Wisconsin — a particularly unfortunate mistake, given the recent discussion about certain people's tendency to confuse members of the South Asian religion with Muslims.
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