In the final weeks of the campaign, Mr. Regalado focused on his core constituency, elderly Hispanics, who appear to have come out strongly in his favor.
The bills would at the same time help Mr. Bush's appeal to two crucial constituencies, the elderly and the Republican big-business class.
After clashes with entrenched interest groups over education, firehouse closings and other knotty issues, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to bring his business-minded, results-based approach to an especially challenging constituency: the elderly.
Prescription drugs loom large politically because they are a top concern of critical constituencies -- the elderly, and the generation aging just behind them.
But Ambit and the other ESCOs operating in New York have caught the ire of state regulators and consumer advocates, who say some sales representatives, in their zeal to earn commissions, have inflated potential savings, misrepresented contracts and been overly aggressive with vulnerable constituencies like the elderly and nonnative English speakers.
The Tory candidate, a former paratrooper-turned-businessman called Philip Hollobone, now does the job himself, criss-crossing the constituency in an elderly white BMW, adorned with bumper-stickers.
They used their control of the federal budget to create a new entitlement, to woo new allies and service a key constituency group, the elderly.
While other national leaders fanned out across the country, she stayed close to home, campaigning in her Toyota Prius and mobilising an army of youthful volunteers to win over a conservative and elderly constituency.
Christchurch is the most elderly constituency in the country, and Mr Chope a noted Euro-sceptic.
That has allowed the government to start a cash-transfer programme, giving money to favoured constituencies such as the elderly and "veterans" of the liberation struggle.It has also given many people a stake in the cash economy for the first time.
