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believing his to be a homogeneous environment the editor reasoned that American political leaders and other prominent figures were too publicly accessible to be accorded the kind of reverence a British Lord might have, ... Unfortunately the Mugwumps, as these gentlemen came to be known, did not maximize their familiarity...
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"Mugwumps and Goo-Goos: American Democracy and 19th Century Anti-Partisanship" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, Apr 12, 2007 <Not Available>.
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Mugwumps - mŭgˈwŭmpsˌ, slang term in U.S. political history for the Republicans who in 1884 deserted their party nominee, James G. Blaine, to vote for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland.
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Hofstadter contrasted the Mugwumps to his much preferred Progressives, who emerged on the political scene a generation later. ... And yet while as a movement for political power the Mugwumps failed, their ideas overwhelmingly prevailed.
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, is said to have given the Mugwumps their political moniker. Dana made the term plural and derided them as amateurs and public moralists. During the 1884 campaign, they were often portrayed as "fence-sitters," with part of their body on the side of the Democrats and the other on the side of the Republicans.
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In early America, "mugwump," our version of the Native American "mugquomp," was sometimes jestingly applied to someone who was the "head guy." The first political mugwumps were Republicans in the presidential race of 1884 who chose to support Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland rather than their own party's nominee.
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History Politics and Society question: Who were the mugwumps? Republican political activists who supported Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential election of 1884. They ... Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > History Politics and Society > Who were the mugwumps?
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II—to the Mugwump movement, a minor American political issue largely ... survivors in the New Deal era, McFarland traced the political records of Mugwumps ...
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Those who refuse to follow the dictum of a caucus are called in the United States mugwumps. The chief of the Indians of Esopus is entitled the Mugwump. Turncoats are mugwumps, and all political Pharisees whose party vote cannot be relied on.
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