| Governments that think low interest rates are always electorally rewarding are riding for a fall. |
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| This has proved electorally successful, delivering Labour its two best ever election triumphs. |
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| It is the only democratic system without an electorally viable socialist, social democratic, or labor party. |
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| A party's choice of leader is electorally important in so far as the person influences its electoral image. |
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| Statute is too often knee-jerk, headline-led populism with predictably tyrannous consequences for electorally irrelevant minorities. |
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| He did this just because it was electorally popular and, crucially, a way of repaying election donors. |
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| Then the other party would counter with an initiative of its own, no less complex and no more electorally penetrative. |
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| It is aimed at limiting the damage done to the government electorally with a tiny pension rise this year. |
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| He tried to grasp why Blairism has been so electorally attractive to so many voters. |
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| It is a dreadful initiative in policy terms, but electorally appears to have been successful in negativing any northern suburb's fears about Labor being soft on crime. |
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| And Americans, usually electorally lazy, turned out in their droves. |
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| They seethe with frustration at the sight of a vile and incompetent government that remains unreasonably popular and electorally impregnable. |
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| Nobody will defend them because they are now electorally insignificant, their isolation turns to distress, even despair. |
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| Most notably, it excludes the UMMA Party and the Democratic Unionist Party, which dominated electorally in all the past free elections in Sudan. |
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| This makes this group electorally strong and paved the way for the admission of candidates of foreign origin to the lists. |
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| It was very careful not to extend the confrontations to the West Bank where it was stronger electorally and politically. |
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| He acknowledged implicitly that there can be a difference between what is right and what is convenient, or politically expedient, or electorally popular. |
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| In this case, it appears that the Madison Avenue-driven war campaign has succeeded in reframing the debate onto grounds that Republicans found electorally fertile. |
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| The risky path that these parties have chosen, the path of peace, dialogue and responsibility to their peoples, is often not to their advantage electorally. |
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| Despite the hair's breadth difference poll results between Labour and Conservative that appear each day, neither party wants to commit to investing in an economically important and electorally resonate sector. |
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| Do you think the party needs to lay out a substantive policy agenda in order to counter the Democrats, electorally and legislatively? Mr Salam: I would very much like for Republicans to devise alternative policies. |
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| The SFIO was soon caught in a pincer between that party, then the most powerful in France both electorally and socially, and a Gaullist party, the RPF, which was seen as a threat to the parliamentary republic. |
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| The landmark climate-change bill, passed by the House, was put in line behind health care, but Reid pulled it off the legislative schedule when it became too scary for electorally vulnerable Democrats. |
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| This shift was facilitated by the regress of post-Civil War Nigeria towards a kleptocratic and electorally corrupt state, and by the mass unemployment brought about by neo-liberal reforms. |
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| Hume was also savagely attacked by members of his own SDLP, who felt that, in lending credibility to Sinn Fein, he was electorally sabotaging his own party. |
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| The retirement of John Hume was followed by a period when the party started slipping electorally. |
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| Its pro-retiree slant might be electorally sensible, and perhaps even a simplifying improvement, but it has left the bigger fiscal and macroeconomic issues completely untouched. |
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| Some will say history twice proved him right but perhaps more accurately it twice proved him on the electorally successful side, which for a politician is much less grudging praise than it sounds. |
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| He still thinks the things he cares about remain the big questions, and even if they have not worked electorally … the country will have to answer them. |
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| We all know it: to play on people's fears is an electorally useful exercise and parties which have no political goals other than gathering seats, like to indulge in manipulating people's feelings of uncertainty. |
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| Since 1998 we have seen a series of last minute measures at the end of the year, more or less electorally motivated, to make the surplus as small as possible. |
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| In his speech, Farage praised the 'fantastic progress' of the Party both electorally and organisationally, adding that the party's membership has trebled in Wales. |
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