His strengths were in manipulating party and government cadres, but he was weak on policy ideas.
Medvedev, on the other hand, wields clout through his huge presidential administration, and via influential aides who can manipulate party politics and state media.
The 20-page report says "there can no doubt that members were recruited to manipulate party processes" during the selection of a candidate for the next general election.
The Guardian newspaper has published the full report of Labour's internal inquiry into the claims, which up until now has remained secret, It says "there can no doubt that members were recruited to manipulate party processes" during the selection of a candidate for the next general election.
There are also signs that the political police – who fear accountability more than any other body and who have not yet been completely purged – are manipulating some parties and infiltrating others.
Not least, they contend, we are seeing a revival of the practice of entryism – a strategy by which members of an outside group are encouraged to join a larger party for the purposes of manipulating that party for its own ends.
Bismarck manipulated the parties and interests as he did foreign powers.
BleedingHeartland.com has been concerned that McGuire, who chaired Hillary's 2008 campaign in the state, is manipulating the party against Sanders.
According to press reports, the list of possibilities under consideration is as strikingly unimaginative as if the choice were being made in the usual way — i.e., by the people, as mediated through and manipulated by party primaries, fundraising prowess, non-stop polling, ethnic entitlement, and regional balancing.
Though he finds the coerced confessions disturbing, He Jiahong, faculty director of the Renmin University Law School in Beijing, said shuanggui, by operating apart from local courts that are easily manipulated by party officials who control their funds, was a vital tool for fighting corruption.
