That was harsh last May and getting harsher if opinion polls and MPs' accounts of constituency door-knocking are any guide.
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The most inspiring part of Gallegos plan was not his belief in the power of television, radio spots or famous surrogates, it was his belief that if he could get his message directly to his constituency through targeted door-to-door canvassing, they would turn out in larger numbers and that that turn out would tip the votes in his favor.
Constance Schwartz, director of the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., said the yacht brought a "glamorous" international art scene to her constituency's back door.
The Bermondsey result is wildly out of line with all recent results - most of all with the next-door constituency of Peckham, which polled in September.
Like all the other candidates in the Aberavon selection, I spent months meeting and speaking with hundreds of our members across the constituency, knocking on doors, making phone calls and engaging in debate about local, national and global issues.
Being a middle-class Londoner from the right of the party – with a voice reminiscent of a young Tony Blair to boot – Mr Twigg could have been vulnerable to the same kind of disconnection from the local electorate as Luciana Berger has experienced in the next-door constituency of Liverpool Wavertree.
I've only just got here, though, as I've had surgeries this morning in my constituency, and I've been going door to door.
Commons officials also disputed a claim for £2,189.96 for six new windows and a door at his constituency home, which Chaytor insisted he needed "because the former windows and door were very old and the timber was rotten".
A few weeks ago, while canvassing in a marginal constituency, I knocked on the door of a man who had previously voted Labour but was now leaning towards Ukip.
The party claimed yesterday it had knocked on more than 40,000 doors in the constituency.
