electioneer , also: electioneerer

But don't electioneer here, because we know you intimately, and we've all been a little in the wooden nutmeg business ourselves."

The Washington Benevolent Societies (the "WBS") were grass-roots political clubs set up 1808-1816 by the Federalist Party in the U.S. to electioneer for votes.

I suppose every electioneer knows that at a by-election every person with any kind of grievance tends to vote against the Government.

Yet the Duke of Newcastle was an enthusiastic electioneer and a practised parliamentarian.

"The Last Electioneer"

"It's not really fair, if our concerns are met now they don't consider giving us space to campaign and electioneer," Mr. Buthelezi said.

He was the coiner of such useful verbs as electioneer, belittle and reticulate; even his noun breadstuffs remains in occasional use.

He was now a national figure, a passive resister, pro-Boer, and a rumbustious electioneer, fighting as a Progressive in London, and being urged to fight in Birmingham.

J. Golby, 'A Great Electioneer and his Motives: The Fourth Duke of Newcastle', Historical Journal, viii (1965), pp.

Through four of Hambletonian's sons (George Wilkes, Dictator, Happy Medium, and Electioneer), the lineage of virtually all North American Standardbred horses can be traced to him.