Word: stumps
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Obama walks a careful line on every issue, not just race. He delivers crowd-pleasing attacks on George W. Bush, the outsourcing of jobs and the Iraq war (which he unequivocally opposed from the beginning), but he always accessorizes with a reasonable caveat. His stump speeches call for more federal dollars for Illinois highways and schools. But he disarms critics by talking early and often about the limits of government. "When you've traveled across the state, what you consistently find is a common set of values: hard work, self-respect, delayed gratification," he says. "We all have to acknowledge...
...Republicans have the ability to put 60 people on talk shows on one day and have all of them say the same thing,” Dean said. “Bush was terrific on the stump. He repeated the same four things three times a day and that’s what dominated television...
...many Harvard undergraduates and alums who sacrificed their sleep and studies to stump for presidential candidates, President Bush’s victory last week may dictate their upcoming job prospects for at least the next four years...
Higher education did not garner much mention in either of the candidates’ stump speeches yesterday, but Bush and Kerry have traded barbs on such issues for over a year...
...clamor for elections. "'How did we get on the wrong side of this issue?'" Rice recalls Bush saying. "'How could it be that the United States of America is standing on the side against elections?' It was a very stark statement that kind of pulled everybody back." Bush's stump speech in the campaign's final days reminds voters of the conviction on which he has staked his presidency: "Freedom is on the march...