The two joined Cass Elliot in the Mugwumps, a group made famous by Doherty's & Cass's later group the Mamas & the Papas in the song " Creeque Alley ".
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Theodore Roosevelt stunned his upper class New York City friends by supporting Blaine in 1884; by rejecting the Mugwumps he kept alive his Republican party leadership, clearing the way for his own political aspirations.
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To put it another way, if I sent a message from Cactusburg to Fort Mugwump, how widely might it be heard ? talk ) 02 : 13, 15 December 2008 ( UTC)
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Formerly a reporter for The Boston Globe, Lyons was a famous mugwump, that being a colorful Massachusetts term for independent ( " big chief, " in a local native American dialect ).
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Whereas " mugwump " has become an obscure and almost forgotten political moniker, " goo-goo " was revived, especially in Chicago, by the political columns of Mike Royko.
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"The New York Times " praised Bacon for his integrity and " manliness, " and called him " the original mugwump of Connecticut . " The " United States presidential election of 1884.
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As a reformer Cleveland had such prestige that the like-minded wing of the Republican Party, called " Mugwumps ", largely bolted the GOP presidential ticket and swung to his support in the 1884 election.
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Although the defection of the Mugwumps may have helped Cleveland win in New York, one of the few closely contested states, historians attribute Cleveland's victory nationwide to the rising power of urban immigrant voters.
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The problem was that in order to win the White House in 1884, Cleveland had courted the support of crossover Republicans, called mugwumps, who, like the Reagan Democrats, helped put him over the top.
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The campaign by the left against Wilson " was not only irrational, " he says, " but today it has an antique flavor, a movement long dead _ like the Mugwumps ."
