A mix-up is bound to occur when you get two presidential candidates and the trappings of their entourages in the same spot. And that’s precisely what happened when the White House press pool rushed to their vehicle in President Barack Obama’s motorcade after the conclusion of his debate with Republican Mitt Romney.

“In an amusing moment, poolers were sitting in the Press One van outside the debate hall and the driver said ‘I think that Romney did real good,’” the AFP’s Stephen Collinson wrote in a pool report. “There was a moment of baffled silence,” he added, before the White House stenographer “put two and two together and said, ‘guys, we are in the Romney van.’”