# Stump speech > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stump_speech > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stump_speech.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_speech > Source revision: 1293964383 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Speech used by a politician}} {{for|the comic stump speech|Stump speech (minstrelsy)}} {{about|political speeches|more general use|Soapbox}} [[File:George Caleb Bingham - Stump Speaking.jpg|thumb|1854 painting by [George Caleb Bingham](/source/George_Caleb_Bingham) depicting a politician making a stump speech]] {{Rhetoric}} A political '''stump speech''' is a standard speech used by a politician [running for office](/source/Political_campaign). Typically a candidate who schedules many appearances prepares a short standardized stump speech that is repeated verbatim to each audience, before opening to questions.Scott L. Althaus, Peter F. Nardulli, and Daron R. Shaw. "Candidate appearances in presidential elections, 1972-2000." ''Political Communication'' 19.1 (2002): 49-72. ==Etymology== 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.{{cite web| url= https://politicaldictionary.com/words/stump-speech/|title=Political Dictionary|date=12 March 2023 |publisher=Taegon Goddard}} ==U.S. campaigns== In presidential campaigns in the United States, a candidate's speech at his or her party's [presidential nominating convention](/source/presidential_nominating_convention) usually forms the basis for the stump speech for the duration of the national campaign. Stump speeches are not meant to generate news, outside of local media covering a candidate's appearance. National media usually ignore their contents in their daily news coverage. The predictability of stump speeches gives reporters a general indication that the candidate will soon conclude his speech. An example of this comes from [New York Governor](/source/Governor_of_New_York) [Nelson Rockefeller](/source/Nelson_Rockefeller), who would constantly use the phrase "the brotherhood of man, under the fatherhood of God" toward the end of his speeches during his multiple bids for the [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) presidential nomination. Reporters covering Rockefeller came to abbreviate the expression as {{wikt-lang|en|BOMFOG}}.{{cite web| url= https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Nelson_Rockefeller.htm|title= Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 41st Vice President (1974-1977) |publisher=United States Senate|accessdate=2012-11-07}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{wiktionary}} An example is provided by the Washington Post on a 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama speech, complete with time line, segmentation and videos. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/02/26/GR2008022600417.html Anatomy of a Stump Speech]. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stump Speech (Politics)}} Category:Elections Category:Public speaking --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Stump speech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_speech) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_speech?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.