Word: stumps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...eyes filled with tears. The woman's story reminded him of why he had entered the race to begin with and got him fired up all over again. And so on Thursday in Iowa, this most phlegmatic of candidates started bearing down hard, putting real passion into his stump speech, winning cheers and laughter, getting people to promise to stand up for him at the caucuses on Jan. 24. If winning in Iowa still seemed out of the question--Gore was 20 points ahead--the Bradley team could dream about a late surge in New Hampshire and beyond, and feel...
TRUMP DUMPS TO STUMP...
...from those politicians who are forced to move voters through their oratory. But last week Trump split from the envy-inducing Slovenian model MELANIA KNAUSS because, according to associates, he felt the need to focus on his campaign. And in fact, a day later, he was back on the stump, pressing the flesh with 32 young ladies from the Miss U.S.A. pageant. Hey, beauty contestants are voters...
...Caucuses are less formal and take place in several stages. Instead of participating in a secret ballot, voters attend regional meetings, where over the course of several hours they listen to delegates stump for the various candidates. In some jurisdictions people still get up and stand single file behind the delegate they plan to support. In later stages of the nomination process, these delegates move on to county or regional caucuses, where they again seek support, and, after two to four lower caucuses, the winning delegates vote in a statewide convention...
...date, candidates would be unable to campaign state to state and city to city. Consequently, they would be forced to rely heavily on mass-media advertising, giving an even greater advantage to those candidates with the largest war chest and turning elections into fundraising battles rather than old-fashioned stump-debates. For a system of group primaries to work, there would have to be substanial campaign finance reform that would allow legitimate candidates free air time to counter their financial advantage...