Word: stump
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama's stump speech still has all the soaring themes that got him this far, but with some practical advice: cheering supporters should not get complacent. "We can't afford to slow down or sit back or let up for one second," he says. With a massive turnout crucial to his calculus of the big victory that his strategists now believe to be tantalizingly close, Obama is delivering a tutorial on election mechanics at nearly every stop, exhorting people to get to the polls and vote - even if it means, as it has in early voting in Ohio, that they...
...polling in Indiana now indicates that Obama could have a shot at winning a state that only a few months ago seemed like a safe and easy victory for John McCain. The same could be said for Virginia and North Carolina, two other states where Obama is scheduled to stump before heading home to Chicago for an election-night rally that some are predicting could draw as many as a million people...
...town hall in New Hampshire was McCain's third public event of the day, which ended with a midnight rally in Miami. At every other stop, McCain delivered his closing stump speech and took no questions. His tone at those events was fiercely negative, and his speech was filled with broadsides against Obama. "Senator Obama said the other day that his primary victory vindicated his faith in America," goes one of McCain's new lines, which questions Obama's patriotism. "My friends, my country has never had to prove anything...
...Thank you for your friendship," he told the New Hampshire crowd on Sunday night. The people roared their approval, shaking their pom-poms and screaming his name. An hour later, McCain returned to his motorcade and then back to his campaign plane, taking off to deliver his stump speech over and over again for the final 36 hours of the campaign. No one knows when he will next have a reason to return to New Hampshire...
...introductions on the stump, South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who is one of McCain's closest friends, calls the Republican nominee "John The Fighting McCain." This fighting motif, which McCain debuted at the end of his convention speech in Minneapolis, now occupies the thematic center of McCain's message. "Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. We never give up. We never quit," he calls out at the end of each rally, raising his voice and building the excitement of the crowds...