Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the reporters left town, most spent their time following the candidates from stump speech, peppering the presidential hopefuls with questions about their standing in the race and desperately hoping their answers would make news...
Bush is staying in this hotel tonight, andHarkin quips, "This is the closest the Presidentwill get to organized labor." The crowd loves it.Harkin sweeps into his stump. He is preaching tothe converted...
...Clarion, the reporters wait in the lobbyfor Harkin to arrive. Lars, a reporter for CBS,types notes into his laptop. He has followedHarkin around all day for three weeks, first inIowa and now here, and "has heard the stump seventhousand times." He travels with Ju-Ju, hiscounterpart at ABC, who is writing a postcard to afriend that just got engaged. Before she canfinish, she looks up, "Oh shit, he's herealready...
...that isn't bullshittingcompletely. Tsongas? He's as much fun as going tochurch." The reporters mostly know each other, butthey introduce themselves to newcomers. "Who youwith? How long you been up here? You doing awraparound or just a focus?" Lars, Ju-Ju and someothers will catch Harkin's next stump across town;the rest are heading to the party for the press atSt. Anne...
...from the Oval Office or the womb of Air Force One, and he is apt to go native in search of the great American middle class. He has been sighted in a Frederick, Md., JCPenney store buying socks and recorded in New Hampshire's political precincts slanging from the stump about frogs without wings and liberals jumping on an unspecified part of his anatomy. Last week he uncovered a cache of supermarket checkout gear at the Orlando convention of the National Grocers Association. The pampered and protected President was dazzled. Supermarket habitues have been using the stuff for more than...