51.   Dole originally hoped to slip past the economic issue, confining himself to a stump speech that was a paean to banality.

52.   Even unpredictable stump speeches do not always give candidates a lift.

53.   For months at a time this year, Clinton rarely mentioned the Bobster in his stump speeches.

54.   Forbes appeared on talk radio shows, delivered his stump speech to the Wilmington Rotary Club and was scheduled to deliver it again at the Talleyville Fire Hall.

55.   Gephardt has a few stock lines in his stump speech.

56.   Gore has proposed expanding Medicare to cover prescription drug costs for the elderly and has made the issue of high drug prices a staple of his stump speeches.

57.   Handing his rumpled jacket to an aide, Lieberman began a folksy stump speech that was interrupted by applause, laughter and more chanting.

58.   Gore road-tested an evolving, new stump speech aimed at more moderate voters than those he had targeted against Bradley.

59.   He frequently compares voters to jurors and delivers his stump speech in much the same way he would address the jury box in one of his cases.

60.   He cocked his ear to the tales of economic worry, and he whapped their softball queries with infobites taken from his standard stump speech.