"If the Republican Party is going to remain viable, it needs to nominate Ron Paul," said Sean Curtin of Iowa City, who estimates that that "Libertarian-Constitutional" constituency that supports Mr. Paul makes up 25 percent of the Republican Party.
Also, by alienating the very constituency that supported his bloodless coup -- the secular civilian elites -- he has turned on the domestic allies necessary to his regime's attempt to contain terrorism and virulent fundamentalism.
There is still a large constituency that supports marijuana prohibition, but with crime rates down it's not an issue that has any impact on presidential elections, and national Republicans would lose very little by taking a federalist, live-and-let-live approach to measures like the ones that passed in Colorado and Washington.
"People in the West don't realize that now that he's made a strategic move -- not just in foreign policy, but in many ways the boldest move he's ever made as president of Russia -- the domestic constituency that supports him is rather weak," Michael McFaul, a Russia scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, said in an interview.
Instead, a Cambridge City Councilor lectured the drivers, according to a Boston Globe article, "You guys realize the constituency that supports Uber is the majority and you're the minority, right?" said a frustrated City Councilor Nadeem Mazen…".
"This is the leadership of both parties recognizing that there is a constituency that supports states setting their own marijuana polices.
"The 2014 Jewish vote once again demonstrates that American Jews are a base Democratic constituency that supports the Obama Administration's efforts to reach an agreement with Iran and to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the pollster Jim Gerstein said in a statement.
Richard Madsen writes that Falun Gong lacks robust backing from the American constituencies that usually support religious freedom.
Gutmann also observes that Falun Gong also lacks robust backing from the American constituencies that usually support religious freedom: liberals are wary of Falun Gong's conservative morality, Christian conservatives don't accord the practice the same space as persecuted Christians, and the political center is wary of disrupting commercial and political relations with the Chinese government.
We need to reward those constituencies that continually support our party.
