Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign, he worried, would be focused entirely on the term bill increase, instead of the more nuanced platforms of the individual candidates...
Seton said he would campaign vigorously against any candidate who did not support the term bill increase...
Despite Seton's promise to campaign against any candidate who does not support the increase, and the general support for the increase among council representatives, some candidates may work a disapproval of the increase into their platforms in the hopes of winning over voters disenchanted with the council and its role on campus...
...John McCain's Republican opponents had been waiting for months to take him down a peg. His issue, campaign-finance reform, was up for debate in the Senate. One after another, Senators from his own party baited him, hoping to bring out his famous temper. "They tried to get him to explode on the floor," says McCain's ally, Democrat Russ Feingold. "They tried as hard as they could." McCain rocked in his shoes; he folded and then unfolded his arms; he fidgeted with the papers on his lectern. But the man once crowned Senator Hothead did not blow...
When voters put their presidential candidates on the examining table, the first test is whether they have enough "fire in the belly" for the job. Americans like to see whether their future President can make it through a tough campaign. When he gets to the Oval Office, the theory goes, that fire will get him through the even tougher days and nights. For McCain, the challenge is not to prove he has the fire, but the opposite: that if he carries the McCain flame into the White House, it won't set the mansion ablaze...