"They shunned the old-style machine-constituency politics in favor of a management approach to government".
His impressive building of a good constituency machine led to him increasing his majority in 2010 to over 12,000, and that is one of the reasons I decided to back him for leader.
He hired a black staff member, doled out pork to black mayors as well as white, and re-engineered his constituency machine (which is reported to be one of the best in the country) so that it took care of blacks as well as whites.
Their views provide growing evidence that the general election is dividing into a two-track campaign, with widening gaps in tactics, campaigning styles and, in some cases, policies advanced by the central party machines and grassroots constituency offices.
Negmole uses machine learning and relies on constituency parse trees from the McClosky Charniak parser.
Some of his policies, such as electing police sheriffs and using traditional tribal justice to settle local disputes, could go scarily wrong.Messiahs are not enough in Pakistan's electoral system, where elections are won constituency by constituency, and party machines are all.
When Karl Rove ran the Bush political machine, Republicans strove to diminish four historic Democratic constituencies: voters of color, Union families, trial lawyers, and Jews.
Roughly half the jobs saved come from the ranks of teachers, a highly organized core constituency for the president and a mainstay of the political machine that supports the Democratic Party.
With attention focused on the Democrats' infighting for the presidential nomination, Senator John McCain is pressing ahead to the general election but has yet to sign up one critical constituency: the big-money people who powered the Bush fund-raising machine.
The elections at youth conference will be a key test for Momentum's election machine before more NEC elections are held in the summer, where six members from constituency labour parties will be elected.
Voting for the constituency section of the NEC, once an important part of the Labour machine but neutered over the last few years as part of internal party reform, took place in the spring.
