Word: stump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afterward, few seemed to care or remember that Bentsen had been evasive in answering questions about his policy differences with Dukakis. Or that many of his responses too were recited verbatim from his stump speech. But never mind. Lloyd Bentsen looked and acted presidential -- indeed, to many he seemed more presidential than either George Bush or Michael Dukakis...
...that all right . . . you don't mind?" Because they had been caught rehearsing it, Quayle's handlers decided to scrap the "tearing America down" line of attack. Instead, Quayle substituted his own line about America being "the envy of the world," a bromide he has been repeating on the stump...
...clock staff meeting the morning after the debate, Quayle sat in his hotel suite as his advisers gently informed him that the public thought he had lost. He played it cool: "So, what else is going on?" he replied. They then sent him out on the stump to provide the answer he should have given in the first place. "There is no question," he said in Joplin, Mo., "that I would maintain and build on the excellent policies of George Bush." On the plane he told reporters, "I hadn't had that question before. Obviously you think...
Political analysts noted that hardly a stump speech was offered by the Baby Boomers without an allusion to the Kennedys. But simultaneously, they questioned whether there was anything at the core of the Baby Boomers beyond some faint hope of tapping into the legacy of their fallen heroes...
...limited record in Congress and when pressed to prove his credentials he was forced to list summer internships he held while still a student. On his first day on the stump as a vice presidential candidate. Quayle seemed overwhelmed, jumpy, amateurish...