This week, Sir Ming has to reach beyond the charm and patent decency that make him popular at Westminster to grab the attention of the swathe of new and potential voters behind the developing electoral front line in Labour's old heartland in cities like Liverpool and Newcastle.
He has begun a charm offensive, reaching out to rank-and-file House and Senate Republicans, dining and speaking privately with them.
In fact, the new pairing may give her an edge: she still dances with bouncy charm, but reaches a little further, her lines a little longer.
At first, our test rider said she was swooning at the smooth ride down the tree-lined Riverside Drive, but by the time she reached Midtown Manhattan, the charm had worn off.
Pink's "I'm Not Dead" (LaFace) opened at No. 6, Bubba Sparxxx's "Charm" (Virgin) reached No. 9 in its first week, and the Flaming Lips, at No. 11, had their best sales week ever, with 48,000 copies of their new album "At War With the Mystics" (Warner Brothers).
He commented that the group's "yearning anthemic reach" and "obvious, slinky pop charm" are replaced with "darker corners, more disruptive interjections, more moodiness".
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It's that distinctive color atop the trees, which can reach 60 feet high, that charms onlookers.
It too could be labelled a neo-realist musical, and it offers blithe charms seemingly beyond the reach of fatter chequebooks.
The executive chef of the Baltimore-based Charm City Cakes first reached out to the couple in an appearance on HuffPost Live.
