Mr. Arafat's penchant for trying -- once more -- to satisfy all constituencies further undermined confidence in his leadership.
The towns of Beaconsfield and Windsor and, further north, the constituency of Tatton, which includes Knutsford and Wilmslow, all feature in the income and wealth tables, but ranked 294, 250 and 229 respectively.
He merely needs to consolidate his Republican base while further eating into Democratic constituencies such as minorities and women.
That seems like a manageable gap, but both sides could have trouble selling further concessions to their constituencies.
The "priced out" generation are a potentially key marginal vote in southern English constituencies, with further pledges to build at least 200,000 new homes a year by 2020.
During the three months preceding polling day in 2005, one of Lord Ashcroft's companies donated around £540,000 to Conservative candidates in more than 60 constituencies, and further substantial donations were made during the phony election campaign of last month.
A new constituency for further reform (an alliance of middle-class consumers and middle-sized private companies) is growing.
Just as important in the Middle Eastern context, more open trade would begin the process of dismantling over-centralised states and create a constituency for further economic change.Of course, trade liberalisation is no substitute for privatisation, financial reform and other domestic measures.
When your correspondent joined the Conservative prime minister on the 8.40am from Euston, bound for Crewe, he had already been hard at it for three hours, clearing his Downing Street desk ahead of a further 12-hour, five-constituency, five-speech day.
