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"JPG" |
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17 Sep 2004 08:46:20 AM |
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US Political campaigning - what is the "Stump" |
Not known in UK elections - what is the "stump" - is it the same as the
"hustings"?
JPG
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| User: "Fester" |
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| Title: Re: US Political campaigning - what is the "Stump" |
19 Sep 2004 08:27:25 AM |
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"JPG" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:eiqlk0hnjsevn805mkd00nri9qho6sn4ei@4ax.com...
Not known in UK elections - what is the "stump" - is it the same as the
"hustings"?
In Flipper's case, it's the objective case of the verb describing the the
state he's in, ie:
I stump
You stump
He/She stumps
We stump
They stump
Flipper is stumped.
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: US Political campaigning - what is the "Stump" |
17 Sep 2004 09:28:06 AM |
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JPG <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:eiqlk0hnjsevn805mkd00nri9qho6sn4ei@
4ax.com:
Not known in UK elections - what is the "stump" - is it the same as the
"hustings"?
It's what the candidates would stand on to give a speech. "Soap box" is
another expression.
As I understand it, the "hustings" is the little out-of-the-way towns? They
used to call them "whistle-stop tours" because the candidates would give
speeches at train stations as they traveled around in their rail cars.
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Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser evil?
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| User: "JPG" |
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| Title: Re: US Political campaigning - what is the "Stump" |
17 Sep 2004 03:40:38 PM |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:28:06 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
wrote:
JPG <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:eiqlk0hnjsevn805mkd00nri9qho6sn4ei@
4ax.com:
Not known in UK elections - what is the "stump" - is it the same as the
"hustings"?
It's what the candidates would stand on to give a speech. "Soap box" is
another expression.
I suppose it may have been a tree stump originally.
As I understand it, the "hustings" is the little out-of-the-way towns? They
used to call them "whistle-stop tours" because the candidates would give
speeches at train stations as they traveled around in their rail cars.
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: US Political campaigning - what is the "Stump" |
17 Sep 2004 03:33:50 PM |
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JPG <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:eiqlk0hnjsevn805mkd00nri9qho6sn4ei@
4ax.com:
Not known in UK elections - what is the "stump" - is it the same as the
"hustings"?
JPG
Stump = tree stump, as in standing on a tree stump in the public park or
square in the 1800's. It was a very primative "multimedia" technology.
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Enkidu aa 2165
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That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps
America's most important contribution to political progress
on this planet.
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Republican Senator 1971-1989
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: US Political campaigning - what is the "Stump" |
17 Sep 2004 01:57:05 PM |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:46:20 +0100, JPG <me@privacy.net> wrote:
Not known in UK elections - what is the "stump" - is it the same as the
"hustings"?
JPG
We have the latter term, too, but it has largely become obsolete (possibly from its
surfeit of syllables,) so I'm uncertain without bothering to look it up. "On the stump"
is 'out on the campaign trail, in public address mode'.
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/Apostate
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