Mugwump
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.