While Lib Dems are fighting for their political lives in constituencies, they are thinking hard about life after Clegg.
The Obama administration eschews constituency politics and avoids thinking of people in unique silos.
"We stopped thinking of the constituency as 1,500, and started thinking of it as 8,000,000, which was much more daunting," said Nazli Parvizi, the executive director of the volunteer center.
But their analysis is likely to conclude that the "incumbency factor" was blown away in a close election because many people voted for David Cameron to be prime minister and were not thinking about their constituency.
When thinking about the concept of constituency, it is usually in the democratic electoral sense, i.e. as a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative.
Campaigning in his Oxfordshire constituency, he said: "I'm not going to be thinking about other results".
Now, thinking about the MP in your local constituency, has he or she claimed expense money to which they are not entitled?
Those answering 'yes' were then presented with the following question: Now, thinking about the MP in your local constituency, has he or she claimed expense money to which they are not entitled ?
The Republican Party has prospered by building an alliance of vastly different constituencies, and it's managed to trick them into thinking it can serve all of their interests.
The White House has "looked at polling in four or five states where there aren't large Latino constituencies and said that's the way forward, without thinking of the impact that policy might have in Illinois, in California, in Colorado,"..
