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Example sentences for: constituency
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"Just as soccer moms were the constituency everyone was trying to reach in the 1996 election, Internet users will play the same role this year."
It wouldn't be far-fetched to suppose that the White House was ultimately behind today's WP story claiming that Judiciary impeachment stalwart Bob Barr was a keynote speaker earlier this year at a meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which views interracial marriage as genocide against white people and says Abraham Lincoln's core constituency was socialists and communists.
At best, Gore's gaffe revealed a candidate so eager to pander to a Democratic constituency that he lost his bearings and overstepped the bounds of good political judgment.
The idea is that while most other demographic segments are largely committed, soccer moms make up a volatile, and hence crucial, constituency.
On the NYT Op-Ed page, Garry Wills argues that the true test of a presidential candidate is not temperament or virtue but the shrewd ability to communicate with a constituency.