Is try out means here "put to the proof"? to put something into test?
“What do you have in mind?” Gibbs asked his boss. “I’ve got some stuff I’d like to try out,” Obama said. “I want to see what the reaction is.” What Obama wanted to try out was an honest-togoodness stump speech full of sweeping national themes"
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Obama means that he wants to give the speech in question (presumably with various proposals for increased taxes, spending, regulation, and the like) and see how people react to it.