31.   But he used each one to launch into long riffs from his stump speech.

32.   But if the stump speeches have devolved into name-calling, they are mild compared with the television ads.

33.   But while Dole has fine-tuned his stump speeches, his performances remain erratic.

34.   But, like his early debate performances, it often wound up as Bush offering his stump speech in sound-bite-sized chunks.

35.   But to date, Bush has answered most of the questions posed to him with excerpts from his stump speeches.

36.   By doing so he echoed a theme Gore long ago incorporated in his own basic stump speech.

37.   Card said the nightly themes were enlargements of signature issues for Bush, as derived from his stump speeches.

38.   Call it the stump speech without hard edges.

39.   Children and education are always high in the Bush stump speech.

40.   Certainly Bush and Gore, while fine tuning their domestic stump speeches, warily must turn their thoughts to the situation.