We want to expand the base we have".
"It's always hard to expand the base," Mr. Culver said.
They emphasize expanding the base of income-tax payers, not hitting current taxpayers harder.
You have to be expanding the base, expanding the party, because compared to the Democratic Party, the Republican Party is a minority party".
Then, when you fill each department's staff quota, you can expand the base itself, to create yet more room.
If the U.S.T.A. can expand the base of young players, the thinking goes, it will eventually churn out better talent.
"My uncle obviously thought it was an important strategy for him, not only to win, but to expand the party, expand the base," he said.
Is this the old strategy of turn out the base, or the political imperative of expanding the base?" This is an awkward time for Mr. Bush.
"I think it's very clear that Ronald Reagan was able to expand the base of the party and continue to espouse the conservative philosophy," he said.
The school's Music Therapy Institute conducts outreach activities that have expanded the base of 750 registered students to a total of nearly 3,000 students.
