National polling suggests a swing away from the Liberals, so you would expect Abbott's vote to drop slightly, but Mathison will need to find a segment of Liberal voters willing to vote for him who would not normally consider voting for Labor or the Greens.
The killing divided Pakistan, exposing the gulf between a tiny segment of liberals who condemned the assassination and a jeering majority who supported and even celebrated the killing.
To be fair, a segment of liberals believes in the easy life of the poor.
This swing toward reaction goaded some segments of the liberal left into conspiratorial activity.
The kind of people who abhor gay marriage are not likely to vote for him next year in any case, while a significant segment of his liberal base would be energized were he to embrace it.
JULIA IOFFE: I've encountered this time and time again among a segment of Russian liberals: talking to them, you feel that, like their socio-economic analogues in, say, New York, they would lean more to the left.
Not even the most liberal segments of society have the will to talk about gender politics as there are apparently more urgent issues to deal with.
From 1967 onward, antiwar sentiment gradually spread among other segments of the population, including liberal Democrats, intellectuals, and civil rights leaders, and by 1968 many prominent political figures, some of them former supporters of the president's Vietnam policies, were publicly calling for an early negotiated settlement of the war.
Secular, Westernized and liberal segments of society are worlds apart from conservative, pious communities in the interior of Turkey.
As a result, Gulen's modernist approach appealed to urban conservatives and some more liberal segments of the middle class.
