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mugwump

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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By joining the GOP, Johnson would be breaking a taboo, making it acceptable for thousands of other black fencesitters to comfortably make the leap with him.
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