Since the early seventies, the mustache, despite some memorable specimens (Rollie Fingers, Tom Selleck, Ned Flanders) and die-hard constituencies (cops, professional bowlers, Playgirl pinups), has failed to match the mainstream popularity of its questionable cousin the goatee.
But for Mr. Rouhani, a handshake may have proved too provocative for hard-line constituencies back home.
How can this be, when so many of these nonprofits are allegedly in the business of protecting their hard-hit constituencies?
"He respects his hard-line constituency but is willing to explore centrist possibilities.
In the interview, published in the Bedford newspaper on Thursday, she said: "Alistair Burt is a very hard-working constituency MP, but in his ministerial role he has had 20 weeks abroad this year.
But events in the past week once again yoked the Bharatiya Janata Party to the very Hindu nationalist identity that Mr. Laxman has been trying to put at arm's length and made it seem that the party was torn between cultivating its hard-core constituency and broadening its base among Muslims and low-caste Hindus -- steps it must take if it is ever to hold power on its own.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair offered Mr Straw his support, saying he was a "byword for being a hard-working constituency MP and parliamentarian".
We must have meant "constituencies"; hard to figure how we missed this one.
In some constituencies, hard left activists have gone after Labour councillors.
It used to be the case that while those with small majorities worked hard in their constituencies - those with large majorities would sometimes not even "visit" for long periods of time.
Mr. Guillory pointed out that Republican primaries in North Carolina were still relatively small affairs, with perhaps 300,000 voters, and that candidates had to work hard to win constituencies like gun owners and Christian conservatives.
