This was one of the main reasons for the party's electoral longevity.The drift awayThree things explain why business support is draining away from Labour.
Much of central and southern Europe was already under authoritarian governments or was to fall into their hands, but insofar as we can judge from the scattered electoral data, the drift in Hungary and Russia, not to mention among the German diaspora, was sharply to the right.
The new electoral college, adjusted to reflect America's continuing drift towards the west and the South, would have given Mr Bush an extra seven votes in 2000.
It is more baffling that Sonia Gandhi, the real power behind the Congress Party, which dominates the government coalition, does little to stop the drift, especially given Congress's recent electoral setbacks in important states, notably Bihar.
If he is discouraged by the general rightward drift of politics and his own series of electoral defeats, both extending over much of his adult life, he doesn't let it show.
Linking reference electrodes from two earlobes or mastoids reduces the likelihood of artificially inflating activity in one hemisphere but this method may drift away "effective" reference from the midline plane if electoral resistance at each reference electrode differs [ 38].
Throughout most of the Labour party's history, the affiliated unions have been the ballast preventing Hardie's vision from drifting on a sea of extremist rhetoric towards electoral irrelevance.
Are we now simply drifting toward May 7 in exactly the pattern of electoral gridlock the polls keeping suggesting?
The electoral college has been rejigged after the 2000 census to reflect the continuing demographic drift to the more conservative south and west.
Sometimes India's regions have exploited the apparent drift at the centre to pursue external relations independently – or have sufficient electoral significance for policy to be made to suit them.
