What is "campaigning"

Usage examples of "campaigning".

The first campaign I was in I thought that campaigning consisted of going around and trying to persuade people by sweet reason to vote for my side.

Most of the things that cost big money in campaigning are almost useless for vote-getting purposes in the local campaign.

Ration his other campaigning to fall outside the forty-hour week of personal calls and don't let the other activities wear him out, no matter how important they may seem (they aren't!

The candidate may need and want a member of his family as a confidential secretary and this may be tolerated, but relatives of candidates are subject to an even more virulent form of candidatitis than are candidates -- it is very discouraging to have to drop real campaigning in order to go around patching up gaps in your fences left by unpolitic relatives of your white hope.

I believe that you will find in every case that the recommendation comes from experience with some other type of campaigning than the volunteer, Grass-Roots Campaign.

The volunteer is campaigning twenty-four hours a day, not by intent, but because he can't help it.

They can ruin all your good work in twenty-four hours, in the sincere misapprehension that they are thereby campaigning for Mr.

The person who makes the pick-up limits his campaigning to signs on the car and to handing to each passenger as he gets in a copy of the same small printed item used at the polls.

The candidate may need and want a member of his family as a confidential secretary and this may be tolerated, but relatives of candidates are subject to an even more virulent form of candidatitis than are candidates - it is very discouraging to have to drop real campaigning in order to go around patching up gaps in your fences left by unpolitic relatives of your white hope.

I've always liked campaigning and traveling through Arkansas, stopping at country stores, sale barns, and barbecue joints.

He was encouraged by the example of Jimmy Carter, who had left the Georgia State House in 1974 to concentrate on campaigning for the 1976 Democratic nomination.

He didn't want to be stuck governing in Arkansas when he should have been campaigning in Iowa or New Hampshire.

The legendary Clinton/Gore bus tours that began immediately after the Democratic convention - featuring Bill and Hillary, Al and Tipper - gave her a taste of big-time campaigning, and the joy of it never left her.

In 1992, while campaigning, she told me, "I always thought that I had to watch myself in Arkansas because it was such a male-dominated culture and outspoken women were not accepted.

Why the focus on her campaigning with Chelsea "on her hip" in 1982 rather than on her critical role as her husband's campaign czar?