Word: stumps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stump, Romney dusts off his CEO badge, listing the skills he acquired in business that he would bring to the White House. Romney calls his decision-making process “bathing in the data.” He pours over information, debates with colleagues, and implements a policy only after hearing the case against it. He’s cheap too, promising to cap non-defense discretionary spending at inflation minus one percent. Indeed, Romney the businessman could restore fiscal responsibility to the GOP brand...
...after he had finished speaking. "They were handing up anything that could be signed-napkins, envelopes. Here's the back of my deposit slip, sign that," his wife Elizabeth wrote in her memoir. Bill Clinton's old strategist James Carville marveled at the time that it was the best stump speech he had ever heard. On Salon, Peter Dizikes predicted, "Before too long, the Edwards speech could be like a museum exhibit that political tourists flock to see before it closes...
...That a stump speech could have such power would seem unlikely in an age when the lingua franca of politics is scripted in 30-sec. commercials by media consultants and pollsters. But the resonance came from Edwards' own life story as the son of a millworker who grew up to be a spectacularly successful trial lawyer and then a U.S. Senator. "I beat 'em, and I beat 'em again, and then I beat 'em again," Edwards would declare. "How many times has someone said to you that you can't do something? That you're not quite prepared for this...
...treat Obama like a favorite book; she raved about how much he moved her, and told her friends to check him out. Obama stood by in a black suit and white shirt with no tie, soaking it all in before giving a version of his standard 30-minute stump speech...
...especially unusual for a Republican: cut government spending, cut taxes, be more competitive in the global marketplace. It's just that these sorts of arid managerial charts, the lifeblood of Romney's previous career as a consultant, generally don't fit the crowd-energizing mood of the political stump speech. It's less the "Fired up! Ready to go!" chant made famous in the resurgent Obama campaign than the hushed whisper of an E.F. Hutton TV spot...