Mr. Elling, a jazz singer with a wide-ranging, elastic voice and literary aspirations, set up a nice little constituency for himself in Chicago and tours constantly.
Having been, in some respects, for some constituencies, Mr Nice Guy for some time, it is hard work and upsetting to be Mr Bad Guy".
Advantages: You can calibrate the shift a bit, and there's a nice map of "marginal constituencies," which, as Hendrik Hertzberg recently explained, are what the British call swing districts (rather than, say, how some Republicans would like to describe the Tea Partiers).
He described him in 1997 as "a very nice guy … a good constituency Member … [with] a good class sense … an amusing guy".
Talking about the historic town of Stamford, situated in his own Lincolnshire constituency, he said: "Local tradespeople... decided they wanted to build nice places to live.
And no, he was certainly not throwing his LGBT constituency under the wheels of the bus in order to make nice with Republican evangelicals who hated him.
A new pro-Brexit PM means acrimonious negotiations, as the leave constituency will expect bulldog truculence towards a European Union that gains absolutely nothing by playing nice.
I think I speak for myself and your entire constituency when I say it's time to put your feet up and have a nice long doze… as you've made a royal t*t of yourself.
Another nice story illustrates the strength and durability of their appeal: a prohibitionist MP was elected to a Dundee constituency in 1922.
The principles of "Iowa nice" should be reflected in the actions of state leaders who are elected to reflect and represent the beliefs of their constituency.
