Moreover, 40 years of settlement building have created interlocking bureaucracies and constituencies that will be hard to stop.
She argued that she is the stronger candidate in the fall against Mr. McCain, saying she done much better than Mr. Obama among key constituencies that will be general-election battlegrounds, including women, Hispanics, older voters, Catholics and blue-collar workers.
When he warned, Greenspan said, "No significant constituency seems to support taking the actions that will be necessary to move toward, and one hopes achieve, budget balance.
John McAndrew, the Sky News Decision Time executive producer, said: "We've got more people out in the field than ever before in the constituencies as that will be the story, rather than what's in the studio".
Obama will be less likely to make concessions to anger core constituencies as well, and that will be for the better because, as he put it, "I won".
Soon all that will be left is Jeremy Corbyn, perhaps back in his constituency office, wanging on about that time democracy happened.
Those who claim to be in the know say this is the constituency that will help you to a good score in the quarterly Rajar figures.
Events like this week's protests, Mr Osterman says, "are aimed at organising a constituency that will ask hard questions of Walmart".Others are asking hard questions of American unions.
To build support for or opposition to particular changes in corporate taxation, many claims will be made about the constituencies that will benefit or be harmed.
In a seven-page memo originally prepared for the California state government and which he has shared with Florida officials, Mr. Tusk concluded that there are four major constituencies that will determine the fate of lottery privatization: legislators, interest groups, the media and the public.
