It adds many tax cuts for businesses, a constituency the administration promised last year to take care of.
Middle East allies are only one of several constituencies the administration needs to reckon with as it responds to the turmoil in Egypt.
Religious conservatives, a key political constituency of the Bush administration, argue that the federal government should not give its imprimatur to work that requires destroying what they consider to be a developing human life.
The Obama administration eschews constituency politics and avoids thinking of people in unique silos.
… It's more complicated in that [the university] is vaster and there are so many constituencies — the students, the administration, the faculty, the other people who work there, the policemen, carpenters, construction workers.
"Speaker Miller and Mayor Bloomberg together, with my administration and his constituency, we will come to an agreement," Mr. Bloomberg said.
The simple truth is that the interests of the Bush administration's primary constituency, corporate America, do not coincide with the fundamental interests of workaday Americans.
"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.
Much will depend on whether the new majority on the Nobel committee minds offending these constituencies by awarding the Obama administration a second prize.
They will play a key part in the formation of the new government and will extract a constituency-by-constituency price for supporting a Fine Gael minority administration as well as demanding major reforms over the way the Irish parliament is run.
