The Word Mugwump.

The Word of the Day for Oct 16 is:
mugwump \MUG-wump\ noun

1 : a bolter from the Republican party in 1884
*2 : a person who is independent in politics or who remains undecided or neutral


Example sentence:
Campaigning heated up in the swing states as the election approached, both sides making a last bid for the mugwump vote.

Did you know?
An 18th-century Massachusett Indian might not recognize his people's word for "war leader" if he saw it used today. In early America, "mugwump," our version of the Native American "mugquomp," was sometimes jestingly applied to someone who was the "head guy." The first political mugwumps were Republicans in the presidential race of 1884 who chose to support Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland rather than their own party's nominee. Their independence prompted one 1930s humorist to define a mugwump as "a bird who sits with its mug on one side of the fence and its wump on the other."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

And there was a 1960s rock band who called themselves the Mugwumps.

Just my two cents! :hi:

Turned into The Mamas and The Papas -AND- The Lovin' Spoonful.

--bkl

A fence sitter.

Someone with their 'mug' on one side, and their 'wump' on the other.

:D