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Mugwump

Mugwumps were Republicans who supported Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the 1884 United States presidential election.

They were often portrayed as "fence-sitters" with part of their body on the side of the Democrats and the other on the side of the Republicans. The term Mugwump is a combination of mug and wump, which means respectively the face and the backside.


Mugwump is also the name of an early computer game written in BASIC and presented in a book by David H. Ahl, the editor of Creative Computing magazine in the 1980s.