Word: stumps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...represents the recent past - the high-tech, welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...
...Bush won't be stressing those particular points as he hits the pre-SOTU stump circuit, but the "if it's good enough for 2006 it's good enough for now" argument will be a popular line, along with this inducement: Remember, folks, the sooner those rate reductions are made immediate and permanent, the sooner the Treasury Department can start fattening up those paychecks of yours...
That posed a challenge when Cheney ran for Wyoming's lone House seat in 1978. On the stump he gave seminars instead of speeches and seemed almost embarrassed asking for votes. But Wyoming was kind to him. "He wouldn't have people screaming and yelling, that's for sure," say Gribbin. "But he was serious and respectful, and people would say, 'Well, he's a solid guy.' In Wyoming that comes across as smart and honest...
...hopefuls expanded further to include a broad political spectrum, from conservative (Connecticut's Joe Lieberman) to moderate (Massachusetts' John Kerry) to liberal (Vermont's Howard Dean). Although many of us are still recovering from the 2000 election cycle, President Bush's would-be challengers are already drafting their stump speeches; the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, after all, are a mere 13 months away...
...Stump Speech...