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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

One day she came into his father's office, where Stafford was helping get out campaign literature, and asked if she could help electioneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gave up all other employment to electioneer in behalf of the Whig candidate, and the defeat of his idol was a crushing blow from which he never recovered.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs