Despite selecting a relatively high-profile candidate, Labour has struggled to build momentum in the Hampshire constituency, party sources have acknowledged.
But with an estimated 600,000 Jewish voters in Florida, a critical swing state, Democratic leaders said they were not taking the constituency for granted, and they acknowledged a need to increase enthusiasm among Jews before November.
The attacks squeezed Mr. Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood between conflicting pressures from Washington and their Islamic constituency at home, a senior Brotherhood official acknowledged.
Mr. Barnes, a Democrat who ran the risk of alienating a crucial constituency of his party with the measure, acknowledged that there was no statistical link between teacher tenure rights and student achievement.
Rory Stewart, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs minister and Tory MP for Penrith and the Border, said flooding in his constituency has been the worst that anybody's experienced and acknowledged water had overtopped existing flood defences.
His reference to votes, not seats, seemed significant, since it acknowledged tacitly that the wide dispersion of Liberal Democrat support across the country might mean that his party would get disproportionately fewer seats in an election that was contested on a constituency-by-constituency basis.
The ruling Zanu-PF party initially acknowledged losing control of parliament for the first time since independence 28 years ago, but recounts in 23 of 210 constituencies could overturn the results.
Trump acknowledged that the challenge for him will be to sound somewhat less like Hitler to please congressional Republicans while still sounding enough like Hitler to avoid alienating his key constituencies of Nazis and white supremacists.
Senior officials acknowledge that powerful constituencies are expected to line up in opposition to cuts of favorite programs — with criticism anticipated from the defense industry, Congress, military headquarters, Pentagon personnel and retirees.
The trade minister, Steve Ciobo, says he will reach out respectfully to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson in the new parliament, and he acknowledges there is a growing constituency of Australian voters who feel alienated by globalisation.
