Claims that Labour had taken the constituency for granted were wide of the mark, she insisted.
Although Mr. Obama leads Mr. McCain in almost every national poll published this month, he cannot afford to take any constituency for granted.
But with an estimated 600,000 Jewish voters in Florida, a critical swing state, Democratic leaders said they were not taking the constituency for granted, and they acknowledged a need to increase enthusiasm among Jews before November.
Many think that he took his bedrock constituency for granted by, among other things, promising civic reforms and then making alliances with ultra-Orthodox parties, only to return to his original promises after the religious parties undermined him and left his government.
This should serve as a warning for Democrats: don't take your core constituencies for granted".
It eliminated rotten boroughs with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, and granted constituencies to 15 unrepresented towns, with extra representation to large municipalities such as Liverpool and Manchester.
New stages were introduced into the standard lawmaking procedure during which legislation that was determined to affect England only was to be considered and voted upon by MPs from English constituencies (who were effectively granted veto power) before moving on to consideration by the House of Commons as a whole.
Compromises would also have to be worked out in dividing powers between central and regional authorities to grant constituencies enough of a sense of self-rule to override narrow nationalistic aspirations.
Granted, it was her natural constituency but the reception she received was very passionate and supportive.
At the same time, a Republican Party that moves too far leftward on immigration risks alienating its white working-class supporters, an easily disillusioned constituency whose support the party cannot take for granted.
In Conservative MP Dominic Grieve's constituency of Beaconsfield, a row emerged after the Department for Education granted permission for a free school for Sikhs to open in a local village.
