Word: stumps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...convention-goers call "the netroots." Yet to judge by Warner's actual speech, the netroots are just another constituency, a Democratic special-interest group to be placated by a campaign promise or two. Aside from a warm-up that referenced the night's festivities, Warner delivered his time-tested stump speech to the crowd, its paeans to the need for education and national security indistinguishable from what he might say to the Milwaukee teacher's association or the Charleston VFW. This lack of special treatment-or absence of pandering-is either a sign of respect or confusion...
...This is the decision," he booms, totally avoiding Humala's name in nearly an hour on the stump. Garcìa and Chávez have been trading insults for months, since the Venezuelan leader began openly supporting Humala and attacking Garcìa, other candidates and Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo. "Hugo Chávez is helping us every time he speaks. And Humala does not understand this," says Enrique Cornejo, Garcìa's chief economic advisor...
...enterprise retains its blithe bite nearly three quarters of a century later. It has a smiling contempt for the electoral process and an acute ear for political B.S. Realizing that stump speechifying is the art of couching nonsense in stentorian cadences, they have a Southern Senator intone this bilgewater: "Not for us the entangling alliances of Europe, not for us the allying entanglances of Asia." Wintergreen, who gets high marks for oratory if not for geography, tells voters that he has campaigned "in the cornfields of Kansas, on the plains of Arizona, in the mountains of Nebraska...
...think he actually knows stuff if you talk to him. You’d think he was kind of an idiot,” Sullivan quipped. Sullivan added that a favorite pastime of Vaz and his friends was to play a drinking game they called “Stump Vik.” But when asked if anyone could actually do the name of the game, Sullivan said, “It just never happens.” —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
...much as his political opponents try, it isn't easy to put a finger on Ollanta Humala, the frontrunner heading into Peru's presidential election this Sunday. On the stump, Humala, 43, a retired army lieutenant colonel,is a fiery leftist, telling crowds that he would nationalize strategic industries and veto the recently negotiated free-trade agreement with the U.S., all the while railing against what he calls the "neoliberal economic model...