candidacy
candidature
electioneering
political campaign
campaign
cause
crusade
drive
effort
movement
front-porch campaign
front-porch campaigning
hustings
stumping
whispering campaign
abstaining
ascertaining
attaining
caning
chaining
complaining
constraining
containing
deigning
detaining
disdaining
draining
entertaining
explaining
feigning
gaining
maintaining
obtaining
ordaining
overtraining
painting
pertaining
raining
refraining
regaining
reigning
reining
remaining
restraining
retaining
retraining
staining
straining
sustaining
training
waning