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

Only British statesmen who do not electioneer are the members of the House of Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were, just as certainly, some others: a reluctance to electioneer against his commander-in-chief, an unwillingness to part company with his old mentor George Marshall, a distaste for the roughhouse of campaign politics.

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