Both unleashed a wave of tabloid sanctimony which couldn't quite conceal the justifiable distaste of a large swathe of the population.
Rightly identifying today's terrifying house prices as a source of angst across a wide swathe of the population, he pledges to get more homes built.
With the PA's huge payroll supporting a large swathe of the population, nobody believes that foreigners are trying to punish Hamas and not the people.
Yining, on the border with Kazakhstan, was the scene of rioting in 1997.The likelihood is that, as in Tibet, the authorities will clamp down hard, and that this will fuel anger across a broad swathe of the population.
Clerics, including salafist-jihadists, use the internet and social-media apps to spread their message to the vast swathe of the population that is devout and, as such, potentially susceptible to their ideas.
To some extent, the Whitney project is about trying to bridge her own distance from the "massive prison system that affects such a large swathe of the population in the US, but never touches me at all, at least not directly", she says.
When you assume that no one needs laundrettes anymore because you can get your laundry picked up and delivered through an app (like one reported Google employee did in a telling tweet), you're automatically annulling a big swathe of the population who actually need them.
Combine the "saving-the-disgustingly rich-saved-us-all" justification for the Wall Street bailouts with the fact that TARP did very little to slow the tsunami of foreclosures, like it was supposed to, and I think it's pretty easy to see why a broad swathe of the population feels it got worked over.
Whether it is self-driving cars, factory automation or robots doing surgery, there is a large swathe of the population that approaches the topic with a sense of unease — even suspicion.
Comparing Labour's economic strategy to a polo mint "with a great hole in the middle", he said it gave the impression it was "for the poor, hate the rich, ignoring completely the vast swathe of the population who exist in between who do have values like ours".
While some critics may deride Ms Yingluck's qualifications as skin deep, there is no question that for a broad swathe of the population, her sunny, youthful disposition offers a refreshing alternative for voters bored with the masculine godfather caricatures that have dominated national politics for decades.
