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For a campaign song that's pithy you have to go back to 1931 and the satirical musical Of Thee I Sing , in which John P. Wintergreen campaigns for the White House with a powerful slogan ("A Vote for Wintergreen Is a Vote for Wintergreen") and a (by the Gershwins) of just four lines:
As if to concede the John P. Wintergreen/John P. Tweedledee interchangeability, most campaigns eventually settled for an "INSERT NAME OF CANDIDATE HERE" approach, shoehorning their man into the handiest existing song.
In the sequel, Let 'Em Eat Cake (1933), John P. Wintergreen runs for re-election and is defeated by John P. Tweedledee, with his :
A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .
Wintergreen for president!Wintergreen for president!He's the man the people choose,Loves the Irish and the Jews.