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

"I never felt it was good taste to go out and electioneer for my husband," she wrote.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boys went out on Friday nights, to electioneer for the Granger ticket, as it was called.

From A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West by Garland, Hamlin