electorate
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Facing a popular Labor incumbent and a young, recently selected opposition leader, One Nation campaigned widely, recruiting prominent former Liberal senator Cory Bernardi to lead its ticket, and running candidates in every electorate.
From BBC
The electorate may be starting to react against that.
From Barron's
“Broader electorates require democracy narratives grounded in pocketbook realities.”
From Salon
“There’s a conversation on both sides at the elite level about electability and about the general election. And then there’s what’s actually going on in the primary electorate,” Blank said.
From Salon
"The reason it's important on the Democratic side is that usually slightly over half of the electorate in the South Carolina Democratic primary is African American," he said.
From Barron's
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