"After all, the true constituency is the readers".
Most Filipinos don't want her to go to jail since that might draw the attention of Imelda's true constituency, the foreign press.
This was predictable: never mind the Tea Party, Mr. Ryan's true constituency is the commentariat, which years ago decided that he was the Honest, Serious Conservative, whose proposals deserve respect even if you don't like him.
On the other hand, if the district is considered a true constituency, in the sense that it has unique interests that can be geographically and, as a result, socially defined, districting should not be arbitrary.
Ryan's true constituency isn't the Tea Party, it's the commentariat; strip him of his unjustified reputation as an honest policy wonk, and he's just another mean-spirited ideologue.
It was, in a way, a mordant echo of the bigger controversies rocking Europe, not entirely unlike Germany's efforts to force Greece to behave more "responsibly," while Greece claimed that responsible behavior was not captured by a bottom line but lay in being responsible to its true constituency.
In Sonia Gandhi's case, her power comes from seeking no position for herself, from focusing on her true constituency–India's poor and from winning a resounding mandate based on the votes of those who do not read English newspapers or watch TV channels.
Digital diplomacy has opened new avenues; and art, music, film, culture speak directly to the global citizen, the true constituency.
Palin has created a scenario, at least in her mind, in which she's defeated the press and can freely Facebook and speak obliquely with and to her equally angry and alienated true constituency.
If they took that same money and let people know about the tax credit for their many small business members, their true constituency would be a lot better off.
