Welcome to another exciting episode of Word Woman! It's time to train your brain with another awesome Word of the Week. Continuing with the theme of election year 2008, here is another political offering:
Front porcher: (noun) [Cf. S.E. front-porch campaign, in Safire New Lang. Pol., P.156] a political candidate who is reluctant to campaign widely. -- "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang", Grant Barrett, ed., Oxford University Press, 2004.
Example: There are those who claim that Fred Thompson's recent decision to drop out of the presidential race is due to his being a front porcher.
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