Many are aggrieved by the government's austerity programme, which has hurt core constituencies.
Just at the moment of their greatest power, the recalcitrant House members were brought to heel by the John McCains and Mitch McConnells who knew well that a rapid deceleration of federal spending would hurt Republican constituencies as well as Democrat, and who had much to fear of a failure to raise the spending cap.
Elected officials prod the regulatory agencies to keep tightening the noose around residential property owners' necks, not realizing that their well-intentioned efforts are hurting the constituencies they seek to protect.
Because they own or guarantee more than a third of the home mortgages in America, any threat to their operations could raise the cost of mortgages and hurt well-organized constituencies in every Congressional district.
The Democrats won't put hard cuts to entitlements on the table because those cuts would hurt their core constituencies.
Unfortunately, it could also hurt the biggest constituency of all: American consumers.
"Clearly it has hurt our core constituency, those people who had scrimped and saved indeed.
"We're not against growth and development, but against something that would hurt our own constituency".
Italy's tax-and-spend budget shows his influence, as does the halt to privatisation, which would have hurt his core constituency of public-sector employees.In South Africa, by contrast, leading members of the Communist Party have turned into stern fiscal conservatives in the African National Congress-led government.
Sacked Abbott minister senator Eric Abetz blamed the super policy, in part, for the party's shock result saying: "I for one will be advocating that we reconsider aspects of it, clearly it has hurt our core constituency, those people who have scrimped and saved for their retirement".
