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[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 7:58 PM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
> 
> unendorse, v. {w}  Also written un-endorse.  1. to fail to have the
> endorsement of other politicians; without endorsement.   
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> 
> Mr. Carey certainly would have thought of something so that the Democratic
> Party's probable Presidential nominee did not come to the Empire State
> unendorsed by it first Democratic Governor in 16 years.  Linda Greenhouse,
> "An Answer to the Question of What Albany Legislators Do With Their Time,"
> The New York Times (Nexis), June 20, 1976, p 30
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> 
> "Coal Bill Likely to be Unendorsed; Ways and Means Committee May Send
> Measure to House Without Recommendation," The New York Times (ProQuest),
> Aug. 6, 1935, p 8

Right--this is an adjective, "un" ('not') + "endorsed", not from the verb "to unendorsed" the way 
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> 2. to withdraw a previously issued statement of political support.  Standard
> (used in contexts dealing especially with U.S. politics; frequency?)

The example I heard on tonight's news was in reference to Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL):

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/06/07/gop-senator-mark-kirk-unendorses-trump.html


Another one from campaigns past (though not as past as 2000's):

http://www.care2.com/causes/seiu-no-we-are-not-un-endorsing-obama.html

SEIU: No, We Are Not “Un-Endorsing” Obama

LH

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> Now you see it, now you don't.  Mayor Edward G. Rendell of Philadelphia, the
> new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has un-endorsed Vice
> President Al Gore in the increasingly heated campaign against former Senator
> Bill Bradley of New ersey for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
> "Party Chief Changes Mind on Gore," The New York Times (ProQuest), Sept. 28,
> 1999, p A22
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> 
> Josh Feldman, "Lindsey Graham Is Now Urging Other Republicans to Un-Endorse
> Trump," Mediaite (Google News), June 6, 2016,
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mediaite.com_online_lindsey-2Dgraham-2Dis-2Dnow-2Durging-2Dother-2Drepublican&d=AwICAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=hCgakDVuGya3G5UcIYbyfrNONN_1RBDvROma5txJhjg&s=7hLsFp6YqaqEgd_hE0yHkfD3K8UGykFHrVmhKVGWo9Q&e= 
> s-to-un-endorse-trump/
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> 
> 1935? (as unendorse);  1999 (as un-endorse). 
> 
> Composite (prefixation): formed from un- (), as in ... (), + endorse (), as
> in .... ().
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> 
> unendorsement, n. Also written un-endorsement. (infrequent?): Four men
> remain in contention to be the next presidential nominee of the Republican
> Party. Last Thursday, 2012 standard-bearer Mitt Romney said that one of
> these men was not like the other.
> 
> Call it an unendorsement speech.
> 
> At least it also was a recognition that of the other three candidates ...
> Romney's substantive and serious argument was "an extraordinary public
> rebuke" of the party's front-runner, said the New York Times. Drew Clark,
> "Is it time for Republicans to start preparing for a new party?" Deseret
> Morning News [Salt Lake City] (Nexis), March 6, 2016, p not given
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> This is not an endorsement (or un-endorsement) of Young's politics, but the
> woman who made national news headlines by saying, "If you're going to play,
> you've gotta pay" in a discussion of health care for indigent mothers is
> known for and respects plain talk, especially when it is intended for
> private consumption.  Jan Glidewell, "Back and ready to poke fun," St.
> Petersburg Times (Nexis), Feb. 2, 1992, p 1
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> 
> My friend Charles Perlik of Falls Church, international president of The
> Newspaper Guild, once again acted-by my lights-wrongly when he cast the
> guild's votes in favor of the parent AFL-CIO's premature endorsement of
> Walter Mondale's presidential bid.  Jack Eisen, "Union Unendorsement," The
> Washington Post (Nexis), Nov. 9, 1983, p B2
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