I was watching CNN on my flight back from Boston (more on that later), and there was a reporter discussing a recent Clinton speech. Paraphrasing a bit:

“One thing I noticed during her speech was that instead of saying things like ‘when I’m president..’ and ‘if I become president’, she today said ‘if I were to become president’, so she’s talking about it in the past tense.”

Clearly, this is not the past tense, it’s a hypothetical subjunctive. I think she’s confusing it with the pluperfect (e.g. “If I had become president”). I guess this isn’t the most important thing to complain about, though..