limousine liberal WAS Grass roots

[Mullins, Bill]

The 1912 McClure's Magazine cite from the OED is in the APS ProQuest
database.
That same article includes an interest antecedent for "limousine
liberal":

MANUFACTURING PUBLIC OPINION
BY GEORGE KIBBE TURNER
McClure's Magazine (1893-1926); Jul 1912; VOL. XXXIX, No. 3; APS Online
pg. 316

"The silk-hat and limousine vote, bound together in the Taft leagues,
swung
heavily for Taft; the factory vote went strongly for Roosevelt."



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>
> The OED has it from June 1912 in reference to the attempt by
> Teddy Roosevelt to become president. I've found a number of
> examples from that year, all in reference to his campaign,
> which might suggest it was coined by somebody connected to
> it. There's also one from 1920 on newpaperarchive.com that
> links the sense to Roosevelt's principles.
> "America in So Many Words" dates it to 1902, but that is in
> the sense of the fundamentals of a situation.
>