Word: stumps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President plans to spend much of the four weeks before his convention, starting Aug. 30, offering a new stump speech, a fresh set of upbeat advertisements and proposals to help people balance work and family, retrain after job loss, prepare for retirement and gain greater control over their financial fortune. The new agenda is aimed squarely at the minority of undecided voters who may determine the election. Swing voters don't look backward, contends Matthew Dowd, Bush's chief strategist. "They want to know what you are going to do with a next term." What's more, the risk...
...With Kerry and Edwards aiming so much of their rhetorical fire at the middle-class squeeze, Bush will offer a counterattack that he hopes will prove "he understands the challenges that people face every day," in the words of Bartlett. One of Bush's signature lines in his new stump speech is "This world of ours is changing," and his new proposals are meant to show that his government could help families adapt...
...foreign policy adviser Nancy Stetson, for policy advice. Kerry's Senate press secretary, David Wade, has moved over to the campaign, where he has logged more miles with the candidate than any other adviser and become an important arbiter of what is and isn't working on the stump. For those tricky situations that only a peer would know how to navigate, Kerry turns to his closest Senate colleagues. Chief among them is Kennedy, who not only recommended his chief of staff Cahill to put the campaign back on course but also has been a tireless booster and fund raiser...
Between now and then, much of the pressure to take action will come from the 10 commissioners, who plan to flood congressional hearings and stump for their reforms in the heartland. Kean told TIME that the panel hopes to release at least four additional staff-written reports, on such topics as aviation and border security and terrorist financing. Since some contain classified documents interested parties may have to first sue the government to see them. But the gentility with which lawmakers treated the commission since the release of its report seems to be evaporating. The panel's call for streamlining...
...Teresa Heinz seem to enjoy an effortless camaraderie. One person's arm inevitably drapes over another's shoulder, and they appear to amuse one another endlessly with whispered asides. But because creating an aura of warmth is one of the reasons a candidate's family goes on the stump, many have wondered whether this group has really formed the perfect blended family it advertises itself...