electioneer

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He embraced new words like electioneer and snack, repurposed old words like congress, and included slang like ain’t.

From Time • May 12, 2015

While employers can electioneer among their employees with near impunity under federal law, some state laws do place curbs or prohibitions on the practice.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2014

Result: "Landlord"' Seaton will electioneer in low key�and only if invited�in the campaign for the June primaries now beginning in Hawaii.

From Time Magazine Archive

They electioneer from a limousine, confounding tattered hecklers with the question: "Why shouldn't we be comfortable?"

From Time Magazine Archive

John Henry Eaton, of Tennessee, was General Jackson's henchman, who had come to the Senate that he might better electioneer for his old friend and commander.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley