But statistics indicate and experts say the tale is more complex than it seems from the campaign oratory and news reports.

If there were several such candidates, it would take the wind out of campaign oratory and inevitably lead to refreshing answers to questions from reporters.

Mr. Dinkins did not use the occasion for campaign oratory.

Once we're in, we'll tell them it was all campaign oratory.

Michael Dukakis has finally gone beyond campaign oratory on national security issues.

And on the primary trail, "family values" have become a staple of campaign oratory.

Such martial talk about a reviled foreign despot makes for satisfying campaign oratory.

And that is the role that presidential candidates embrace in their campaign oratory.

Nothing is more notable in modern American campaign oratory than its careful, gray, timid quality.

Is that just campaign oratory or is it substantive?'