POLS

Ward heelers, e.g.

• Baby kissers

• Campaign pros

• Campaign veterans

• Campaign vets

• Candidates for office

• Candidates for office, slangily

• Capitol gang

• Capitol group

• Capitol Hill figures

• Congressional figs.

• Congressmen, state senators, etc.

• D.C. big shots

• D.C. bigwigs

• D.C. deal makers

• D.C. dealers

• D.C. denizens

• D.C. figures

• D.C. in-crowd

• D.C. insiders

• D.C. old-timers

• D.C. players

• D.C. types

• D.C. veterans

• D.C. wheeler-dealers

• DC types, for short

• Experts in vote-getting

• Folks in smoke-filled rooms

• Hill regulars

• Hustings figures

• Ins

• Inside-the-Beltway figures

• It's hardly haute cuisine

• Mavens of the stump

• Noted logrollers

• Office seekers

• Office seekers, for short

• Officeholders

• Ones in office

• PAC targets

• Part of a local machine

• Party activists

• Party guys?

• Party hacks

• Party people

• Party-goers?

• Patronage beneficiaries

• Pro campaigners

• Professional runners

• Pros on the hustings

• Regular runners?

• Rep., Sen., Gov., etc.

• Running experts

• Running pros

• Senators and congressmen, for short

• Senators and representatives, for short

• Senators and such

• Short officeholders

• Smoke-filled room fillers

• Smoke-filled room folk

• Some campaigners

• Some making Capitol gains?

• Stump mavens

• Stumpers?

• Successful runners, for short

• Ted and Dubya, e.g.

• The in crowd

• They're seen on C-Span

• Veteran campaigners

• Voted-in ones

• Ward heelers

• Washington insiders