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In US political history, a colloquial name for the reform Republicans who voted in the 1884 presidential election for Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, rather than for the Republican nominee James G Blaine. Blaine was accused of financial improprieties, and the reform-minded mugwumps were partly responsible for his defeat.

The term has come to mean a politician who remains neutral on divisive issues.
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Site tours, solar oven pie baking, composting demonstrations, roving "Kinder Critters" and live music by the Blair Street Mugwumps will be provided.
OUTDOORS CALENDAR by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Luckily, news about this East Midlands so-called city upstart was merely a taster to reveal that Liverpool City Council and Merseyside quango mugwumps spent pounds 150,000 on the much larger, sassier yacht, Sunliner X, and for sending hard-working staff to Cannes.
Money well spent? MR BROCKLEBANK by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
31) Such presidents often cobble together unorthodox coalitions (think Grover Cleveland's uniting of Northeast Mugwumps and Southern Bourbon Democrats) and might be assisted by spoilers, such as Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 or Ross Perot in 1992.
Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy by Greene, Jamal / Yale Law Journal
 
 
 
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