Stupid OED Tricks: Election Edition

Of the three folks currently in the US Presidential Primary race, none have (at the moment) a surname that has a citation in the Oxford English Dictionary.  The online OED is ever helpful though, and suggests a possible near-match candidate when a specific lookup fails, and so we get this list:

Obama — obambulate: intr. To walk about; to wander here and there.
Clinton — clintonitea variety (or a synonym) of SEYBERTITE.
McCain — McCarthyism: …oof.

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