In the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Obama regularly pledged to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," but in his first year in office he refused to set a timetable and said so little publicly about the issue that gay rights leaders, an important constituency, grew increasingly angry.
Over time they saw that she was devoted to create genuine alliances, partnerships her constituency grew within the company.
The President could then have gone on to describe how that spirit of experimental pragmatism often got lost over the next 50 years, as constituencies grew for programs that were no longer working so well and politicians refused to make hard choices, leading Ronald Reagan to tap into a public sentiment that too much money was leaking out of the bucket into which they were pouring their tax dollars.
"It's crazy," said the governor, who believes that resistance to sprawl has been building a national constituency that grows with each day's rush-hour crawl by suburbanites through patchwork counties of farm tracts and mushrooming developments.
She hands over a sheet of statistics claiming Bradford West has the fastest-growing unemployment rate in the country, having suffered the greatest yearly decrease in employment among all Britain's 650 constituencies, with 32% of children in the constituency (11,768) growing up in poverty.
The Greens' middle-aged, university-educated constituency is growing as a proportion of the electorate.
And the more he was able to use the Senate as a bully pulpit the larger his national constituency would grow.
But New York's archbishop must be conscious of the needs of his polyglot flock, a constituency that grew by one-third in the last 15 years to 2.4 million people.
Despite being very diverse and far from monolithic, this constituency is growing faster than any other religious community and has become increasingly visible and sophisticated in its political engagement.
This is the constituency I grew up in, where I went to school, where my kids go to school and I am deeply proud to represent Pontypridd in parliament.
