I've heard "gin up" several times this election cycle, the last time from a WSJ reporter on CNBC. DARE has a 1970 cite "I'll see if I can gin up this meeting" with the same sense of "To stir up, get (something) going"-- is this an attempt to sound folksy, a genuine revival or what? _________________________________________ "We are all New Yorkers" --Dominique Moisi