This outcome is partly dictated by the shape of the election campaign.
A few bellwether constituencies indicated the shape of the election's outcome.
From this point the shape of the election will be coming clear.
It suggests her belief that the Trump base, the people responsible for the shape of the election, are beyond persuasion.
But their velocity, vapidity, and sheer ugliness reflect his character, his emptiness, and, most of all, the shape of the election campaign to come.
David Cameron may be the only person who doesn't understand (perhaps he does and is just pretending) that Lib Dem activists see themselves as centre-left types: in favour of economic fairness (political fairness in the shape of PR elections too, they would argue), of the UN, and of Europe, civil liberties and a greener planet.
Her point is basic but often overlooked: the shape of the presidential election changes depending on who the Republicans nominate – true in any election but perhaps more interesting in 2012, given the lack of an obvious Republican front-runner.
The shape of the 2006 election campaign came into clearer focus after the National Action Party of President Vicente Fox selected Felipe Calderón, a former energy minister, as its candidate to succeed him.
And that matters because the shape of the general election campaign is now clear: a battle over how Britain funds itself post-recession, with Labour claiming that only they can protect public services from savage reductions - and the Tories arguing that it is fraudulent to pretend there won't be cuts.
Jane Foley, Rabobank: The optimism that carried asset prices higher of the start of the year has been given a sharp wake up in the shape of the Italian election result.
