Even though Bernie Sanders had difficulty connecting with the African American voter, his overall message resonated with me.
A result of insufficient fund-raising, that debt points to a larger problem: a difficulty connecting with local constituencies.
Noticing that its employees were having difficulty connecting with customers from cultures other than their own, WM Housing Group decided it was time to act.
The MetroStars dominated play in midfield and forced the majority of the action around Dallas's penalty area, but they had difficulty connecting with one another other inside the penalty area.
Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, has had difficulty connecting with working-class voters, and his more ambitious responses to economic problems like expanding access to health insurance would be paid for in part by tax increases, always a risky proposition.
Although even his opponents acknowledged that he ran a strong campaign in his debut as Liberal Party leader, Mr. Ignatieff, a former journalist and director of a human rights center at Harvard University, had difficulty connecting with voters.
"Moral psychology can help to explain why the Democratic Party has had so much difficulty connecting with voters," writes Haidt, a former liberal who says he became a centrist while writing the book.
Some comments by Mr. Romney suggesting that he lacks the common touch have evoked memories of the 2004 Democratic contender John Kerry – another wealthy Massachusetts politician who had difficulty connecting with average voters.
(Less felicitously, the show also retains much of the home-truth dialogue, projected in English translation in supertitles.) The play "The Second Wife" is in previews, and the show's star, Myrtle (the splendid Elsie de Brauw, in a role originated by the splendid Gena Rowlands), is having difficulty connecting with her part, that of a woman coming to terms with age.
Yang expresses difficulty connecting with the children on pediatrics, to Robbins' disappointment.
