Ever wonder where the phrase "stump speech" came from?

By Mike HOGAN on October 12, 2007 1:43 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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It came from the fact that orators on the American frontier often delivered speeches, literally, from the stumps of felled trees. 

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