The irony is that, back in 2010, the Conservatives were buoyant here, having snatched the constituency away from Labour.
When this once reliably Democratic constituency moves away from the party by large margins, Democrats lose.
But they dare not suggest specific bold solutions for fear of alienating core constituencies: they shy away from ideas to deal with the persistent failure of black students, for example, to avoid offending teachers' unions, and they yield to urban leaders opposed to plans aimed at moving inner-city dwellers to areas that offer better job and educational opportunities.
In recent months, Rubio's GOP rivals have shored up their pathways to the nomination, luring away constituencies that Rubio would need to win.
The Reform Act of 1832 extended the franchise and redrew constituency boundaries, doing away with many rotten boroughs.
She made her victory announcement last week from the rural village of Melle, in her constituency, keeping well away from the leafy boulevards of the Paris left bank, home to the Socialist Party headquarters.
When I was not at the department of transport or in the Commons, I was in my constituency 120 miles away in Sutton Coldfield, trying to convince my electors that they were not losing out by having a government minister as their MP.
Within Protestant Christianity there is no comparable central authority, but most Protestant theologians, except within the extreme fundamentalist constituencies, have also moved away from the exclusivist position.
While the latter put themselves on the line in key constituencies, Davies hid himself away on a regional list, almost certainly ensuring that Labour kept hold of the Vale of Glamorgan in the process.
As we now know from unnamed US officials in the Arab media, the Obama administration is currently looking at ways to lure key officials, constituencies and army leaders away from the iron-fist policy pursued by the Assads in the hope that an Egypt-type scenario may obtain in the near future.
