Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Mugwumps were Republicans who supported Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the 1884 United States presidential election. They were often portrayed as "fence-sitters" with part of their body on the side of the Democrats and the other on the side of the Republicans. The term Mugwump is a combination of mug and wump, which means respectively the face and the backside. Mugwump is also the name of an early computer game written in BASIC and presented in a book by David H. Ahl, the editor of Creative Computing magazine in the 1980s. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.