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Re: Quiet in here
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:04:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> There's a Mugwump party? What's their platform? :-) Yahoo came up dry
> when I searched on Mugwump...
> 
> Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> 
> > Bruce
> > (sometimes Democrat, Green, Libertarian, Mugwump, Free Silver, Bullmoose, • and
> > Whig, but never Nazi, Communist, or Republican) ;-)
> 
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Idunno if they actually went by that name or if that was what everyone called
them.  It refers to fence-sitting on issues: their "mug" was on one side of the
fence, and their "wump" on the other.  In any case, I was a registered
"Mugwump" for a brief period.

Bruce



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  Re: Quiet in here
 
(...) the (...) Found this: mugwump from Algonquin 'chief' In US political history, a colloquial name for the reform Republicans who voted in the 1884 presidential election for Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, rather than for the (...) (27 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Quiet in here
 
In Oregon you have to declare your political party when you register... Greenback is still a recognized party, even if it puts "Independant" on my Oregon Voter's card. -The Cheese (...) the (...) (27 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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There's a Mugwump party? What's their platform? :-) Yahoo came up dry when I searched on Mugwump... (...) (27 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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