The helpers are engineers, who restrain or move the water with dams, canals, irrigation systems and floodgates; and politicians, who negotiate among nations, states, cities and constituencies that include industries, farmers, environmentalists and myriad morons who build on flood plains.
According to a comprehensive report by the think tank Demos, the result was a backlash against the GOP's heavy-handed tactics to intimidate voters and suppress the turnout of Democratic-leaning constituencies that included making robocalls that misleadingly told targeted voters that the Election Day had been changed, enacting voter identification laws and, in Ohio, limiting early voting hours.
But they stem from the same basic cause.Consider Somerton and Frome, a sprawling Somerset constituency that includes pleasant market towns, picturesque villages and beautiful countryside.
It takes six hours to reach Westminster from Copeland, a huge, semi-rural constituency that includes Keswick in the Lake District as well as Whitehaven.
Last week, Basma Jebali, an Ennahda member representing a constituency that includes the island of Djerba stated in parliamentary discussions that "massive purchases of land by Jews in Djerba could turn the island into a second Palestine".
Still, Bluestockings has a tough balancing act ahead, keeping the loyalty and business of the old collective (the tampon cases will stay) while attracting a new constituency that includes men.
As well as being the chancellor of the exchequer and among HS2's most vocal champions, George Osborne is also the MP for Tatton, the Cheshire constituency that includes Wilmslow, Knutsford, Northwich and a sizeable expanse of countryside.
What magic formula could possibly satisfy a constituency that includes students, faculty, alumni and the community — as well as trustees and the big donors universities rely on so greatly these days?
She was also an advocate for the hearing-impaired — a constituency that includes two of her three sons — and persuaded the producers of "Maya & Miguel," an animated PBS series in which she voiced the grandmother, to incorporate American Sign Language in one episode.
A former chief financial officer of Infosys, V Balakrishnan, is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from Bangalore Central, while a former chief executive of the company, Nandan Nilekani, is the Congress candidate from Bangalore South, a constituency that includes slums as well as parts of Electronic City.
Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP are among the main parties also standing in North Antrim, a constituency that includes the Giant's Causeway, the Bushmills distillery and Balllymena, Paisley's home town and the place with the highest concentration of millionaires in Northern Ireland.
