Gerrymandering of district boundaries is usually blamed at this point, and certainly the Republicans did use their current clout in many state legislatures to redraw the electoral map for 2012, shoring up lots of vulnerable House members by adding Republican neighbourhoods to their seats, and corralling Democrats and minority voters into Democratic enclaves.
However, there are some encouraging signs: his triumphant performance of Drop the Game, his collaboration with Chet Faker, and a final DJ three-way with Emoh Instead and his special guest Skrillex, an impressive display of the 22-year-old's current clout.
But thanks to the current political clout of social conservatives, TV and radio firms are under more attack than ever for allegedly corrupting America's youth.Congress is threatening to increase sharply fines for airing indecent material, and some politicians want to regulate cable and satellite TV for indecency for the first time.
The Founding Fathers would be dismayed at the current concentration of clout.
"Being an equity partner means you've arrived, that you have clout," the current partner said.
The Karzai government owes much of its current authority to the clout and negotiating skills of the White House's special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad.
Regional research unit NKC African Economics has described Mujuru as "perhaps Zimbabwe's last realistic hope of salvation", saying the veteran politician had more political clout than current opposition leaders.
The economic, political, and social clout of current immigrants is far more beneficial to the nation than our media, immigration critics, and politicians point them out to be.
They will certainly want to think about common regulation, even if they do settle for the time being on better co-ordination among national regulators, as Britain would prefer.France, which chairs Ecofin and the Euro Group for the current half-year, wants more clout for the latter.
The deal that the president-elect struck with Kim Jong Pil, the leader of the United Liberal Democrats, was to promise him the prime minister's job and endow the office with more clout than its current largely ceremonial role.These changes have not been made solely for reasons of political expediency.
As someone who is of the Lady Bracknell school of thought, whose best nights out have involved the carrying of nothing more than a debit card (overdrawn) and a packet of fags in the pocket of a faux-fur coat, the sheer size and clout of the current handbag styles does absolutely nothing for me.
