electioneer
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- v work actively for a political candidate or a party
My neighbors are busy electioneering during the Presidential election campaign
- The election was for the local Diet, but Chancellor Heinrich Bruning of all Germany went out to electioneer against the Fascists.
- As students at the famed University of Glasgow prepared to elect their Lord Rector, no less a quipster than George Bernard Shaw drew his quill as an electioneer.
- Another feature of the campaign was that the government placed 64 opposition candidates in jail "permitting them to stand for election but not to electioneer.