Stump speech (politics) Stump speech (politics) A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a politician running for office. Typically a candidate who schedules many appearances prepares a short standardized stump speech that is repeated verbatim to each audience, before opening to questions. The term derives from the early American custom in which candidates campaigned from town to town and stood upon a sawed off tree stump to deliver their speech. In presidential campaigns in the United States, a candidate's speech at his or her party's presidential nominating convention usually forms the basis for the stump speech for the duration of
Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution Cobb/Badnarik recount in Ohio. The campaign succeeded, among other things, in seeding local voting rights groups across the United States. The Liberty Tree Fellows formally incorporated the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution as a non-stock corporation in the state of Wisconsin in October 2004. Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution is an American non-governmental organization ""rooted in the belief that the American Revolution is a living tradition whose greatest promise is democracy."" Their purpose is to foster a broad-based democracy movement in the United States. Their programs include Democratizing Elections,