Word: stumps
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...legitimate question, but it presumes that the players on the Vote for Change tour--Springsteen, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Dixie Chicks, Dave Matthews Band and 11 more--are planning to become stump speakers. "You don't stand up at a rock show and lecture people unless your name is Gandhi," says R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck. "We're musicians, not politicians. We get that." MoveOn.org the liberal political-action committee that is presenting Vote for Change, has tried to get the performers on message with a series of talking points, but there's little evidence to suggest that the briefings stuck...
...floor of the FleetCenter and heard as the line was greeted first by silence—had he really gone there?—and then by loud cheers of approval. The attack has since become a regular refrain on the Kerry stump...
...that’s a lot,” Bush said, invoking a favorite line from his stump speech, “even for a senator from Massachusetts...
...months, the candidates have fired off stump-speech gibes, ridiculed each other through surrogates and watched independent political groups hijack the race with attacks the campaigns themselves wouldn't make. But all that was shadowboxing compared with what will happen over 90 min. Thursday night at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., when the two men will come within handshaking distance for the first time in the race. According to the plan, a second debate next week, in St. Louis, Mo., will feature questions from an audience of voters with loose allegiances to the candidates. The third contest...
...much about the man Indonesians overwhelmingly chose to lead them: his undoubted intellectual heft?Yudhoyono's personal library contains 13,000 volumes?and a discipline that allowed him to finish and defend a doctoral thesis in the middle of a presidential campaign. Those were qualities Yudhoyono downplayed on the stump, where he touted a decisiveness honed through a 29-year military career. Unlike the incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Yudhoyono told voters, he wouldn't shy from tough decisions to tackle the country's social and economic woes...