There was more riding on this weekend's speeches than on a typical stump speech.
Mitt Romney gave his standard stump speech in Janesville recently, with Ryan at his side.
During the campaign season, a typical candidate's stump speech may belie the rich and eloquent history of American rhetoric.
Today, the only mention of corporations in his stump speech is a demand that the corporate-tax rate be lowered.
Edwards jumped into his traditional stump speech, urging Americans to work for a nation that isn't divided by wealth.
McIntosh features a neglected icon, the Oath of Office, in his stump speech.
He ran for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination but dropped out after charges of plagiarism in a stump speech.
At that point in his stump speech, Mr Rubio cleverly transforms his uplifting personal story into a political rallying cry.
But his stump speech this week focuses first on his plans for the economy, noting huge, new concerns on that score.
His current stump speech panders to his party's worst instincts on everything from drug prices to American business moving jobs abroad.
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Then Senator McCain comes out, and he delivers his stump speech - again, very much like his convention acceptance speech, but the 16-minute-long version.
"He seems to be pushing a message of love, " said Darian Tarver, 21 and a senior, after hearing Bradley's stump speech at Atlanta's Morehouse College.
Obama tailored his stump speech here to talk about the need to fix trade deals that he says are too often unfair to American workers.
Saturday, two days before the start of the Democratic National Convention, the Illinois senator was scheduled to give his first stump speech with his new running mate.
In two debates now, Bush has appeared tense and uptight -- and his answers have been, for the most part, memorized stock lines from his standard stump speech.
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Should I then leave it out of my stump speech?
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When reporters ask him questions designed to discover whether he really has read James Chace's biography of Dean Acheson, he shouldn't answer with some foreign-policy boilerplate from his stump speech.
Publisher Steve Forbes gave his stump speech Wednesday to a group of senior citizens on Des Moines' east side, but he also made special mention of the problems facing rural America.
If Romney really supports American jobs as strongly as his stump speech suggests, he'd stand up to members of his Republican Party and encourage them to pass the president's jobs plan.
And when a campaigner tells you in his stump speech that he thinks taxes should be raised, smile sweetly and ask him how much he added to his tax bill last year.
"Unlike the typical campaign stump speech, they are not trying to mobilize their respective bases, " said Gerhard Peters, co-director of the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Clinton has avoided reporters' questions in recent days about questionable Democratic fund-raising and his remarks -- nearly 10 minutes in a longer-than-normal stump speech -- were an attempt to respond to his critics in a controlled venue.
At an event on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, throngs of giddy students leap to their feet when he appears and drown out most of his rambling stump speech with rapturous applause.
After a standard stump speech, Clark was asked whether he would close the School of the Americas -- the Army facility at Fort Benning, Georgia, that some peace activists say has contributed to human rights abuses in South America.
Is there a candidate in the past 30 years who hasn't had his outside airbrushed, his long-winded message sharpened, his stump speech spiced up, his policy positions honed, a bit of poetry added to his homily on Medicare reform?
In a stump speech for all things digital, Gates told an audience of hundreds of BlackBerry-fiddling advertising industry types Tuesday that within just five years, Internet-based television will do to broadcast what the Internet has already done to print media.
Mr Romney gave his standard stump speech, laying out - eight days before the vote - not a vision of what the US might be like under his leadership, but instead how he would cut corporate tax rates and scrap deductions and loopholes to pay for it.
He nodded towards the pain inflicted by storm Sandy and then moved on to the stump speech that anyone who has attended more than one rally knows so well - the five-point plan, the anecdote about the US flag rescued from the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the dully-delivered homilies about the need for change.
Reaching back to his breakthrough keynote at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he pulled out all the rhetorical stops from that speech and deployed them throughout the rest of his 2012 campaign: in the second and third debates, in his many stump speeches, and then again in his rousing victory speech.
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