Lexicon of Politics: Day 15 + review

Big Mo n. beneficial momentum, as in a political campaign. --opp. Little Mo.

1989 Life Goes On (ABC-TV):
We'll get a jump on him and start building the big mo.

2004 U.S. News & World Report (Feb. 18):
Uh-Oh: Big Mo No Mo.

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granfalloon n. [coined by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (a true-blue lib)]
any large, amorphous organization without real identity.

front porcher n. [Cf. S.E. front-porch campaign, in Safire New Lang. Pol., p. 156] a political candidate who is reluctant to campaign widely.

shift and shaft n. having a tendency to increase taxes at a more local level by decreasing them at a regional, state, or federal level.--often attrib.

banana superpower n. a dominant nation which behaves like a weaker country with a fraction of its resources.