A question Labor may want to ask itself, when assessing its governance and electoral strategy, is: how has it improved economic prospects in those specific electorates where the Palmer vote spiked?
Because however much the treasurer tries to skew the question, when this debate gets down to specifics, the electorate is not going to buy any "user choice" or "contestability" or "competition" in human services unless they are convinced the government is not only thinking about cheaper services but also about the humans who need them and the society they hold together.
Data-driven campaign techniques like microtargeting — using data mining to deliver a tailored message to a specific subgroup of the electorate — cannot change the fundamentals of an election or make an unlikable candidate suddenly likable.
We do with men voters what we should be doing with women voters, which is we talk about specific segments of the electorate that are male that are doing a particular political thing because of the way that gender incentive is working out in that particular space.
The more positive approach may continue as Mr. Romney's advisers believe that a broader ethos has taken hold of the electorate, specifically the desire to bring change to Washington, as opposed to differences on specific issues.
He insisted that they should confront these issues directly, or else the specific "retail" offers to the electorate that tested well in focus groups, such as the energy price freeze, would fall on deaf ears.
As for the at-large seat, the election statutes were changed and now require candidates for citywide offices to live in one of five specific districts, though the entire electorate votes.
"Around the country, there's a trend toward parish priests providing homilies that are more focused on the nexus between the church's moral teaching and specific political issues before the electorate," R. Scott Appleby, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, said yesterday.
Weiner has been less interested in specific reforms than in firing up the electorate; on one occasion he evoked Nazi Germany in his denunciations of stop-and-frisk.
The idea is to focus on the electorate but our organisation has specific access to Muslims so that's why our starting point is there but our events are open to all".
First, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about the size of the Latino electorate both nationally and in specific states.
