Issues that are highly salient and visible to key constituencies, for instance, may cause politically ambitious actors to alter their bargaining positions.
Beyond that, Republicans in several states have recently passed more restrictive election laws, which they say will fight fraud; Democrats say they will make it harder for some of their main constituencies — youths, for instance — to vote.
Before Moore gets to the pro-Hillary message, however, he offers himself up as a kind of therapist in chief, offering soothing words to any and all constituencies, refusing, for instance, to chastise millennials because they change the ink cartridges in computer printers.
These constituencies are, for instance, not always supportive of the introduction and implementation of local environmental protection measures (Caulfield 2006) such as prohibitions on the use of wetlands or forests.
Because he hasn't done that, he has been able with some success to be not one constituency's private messenger (mine, for instance – though I wouldn't have minded it), but to be all constituencies' messenger.
For instance, in those constituencies with a Conservative plurality alongside a majority divided between Labour and Liberal Democrats which did not prefer the Conservative candidate, the majority under approval voting would have been able to reflect this fact in their voting patterns and the outcome.
The wildly varying swing in apparently similar constituencies – Leicestershire North West and Corby, for instance – and the low swing against incumbents despite an alleged anti-incumbent mood in the country indicate that there was something unusual about the way people approached this election.
During the election campaign for instance, developer Martin Petts used our raw constituency statistics to create the Voter Power Index with the New Economics Foundation.
For instance, optimism among small-business owners — a cornerstone constituency for the GOP — has surged as well.
