In the gymnasium, he gave a stump speech and took questions.
Neil Bush might as well have been giving a stump speech when he addressed three dozen principals at a middle school here the other day.
Mr. McCain, clearly buoyed by the energy of the room, gave a stump speech in which he declared, "A primary ended on Tuesday night and a crusade began".
The following morning in Spokane, Mr. Bradley gave a stump speech abundantly salted with the kinds of punchy applause lines his speeches have often lacked.
Everywhere Soames goes in the company, he gives a stump speech about what went wrong, and how he is trying to fix it, which lasts about seven minutes.
But in October , 1987 eyeing the election of 1988, he went so far as to give a stump speech before the Rotary Club of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Think of Utopia as just another word for the ideal America — the imagined one of election seasons that is prosperous, righteous, and always good — and suddenly Stevens is not so different from the person who gives a stump speech.
Everyone sits around and says, 'Gee, you didn't mention....'.. " These spots, thirty in all since the start of the campaign, usually featured Kerry or Edwards looking into the camera or giving a stump speech.
Everyone sits around and says, 'Gee, you didn't mention....' " These spots, thirty in all since the start of the campaign, usually featured Kerry or Edwards looking into the camera or giving a stump speech.
And while she is poised and energetic on the campaign trail, giving a stump speech that details her rise from the daughter of a maintenance man in Oklahoma to a "fancy professor" who champions the middle class, hers is a different kind of interaction with voters.
