The withdrawal was motivated by differences over electoral strategy and candidature.
Greater emphasis was placed on professionalism, the use of focus groups and a change in electoral strategy.
But both sides also have electoral strategies in mind.
"But what the left in America needs and doesn't have is an electoral strategy," one that goes beyond waiting to see who the Democrats nominate.
Such restraint might have been an electoral strategy, but it still proves that if the incentives are right, Hamas can hold its fire.
This was not just an electoral strategy; it is his view of what government is about.
From an Irish republican perspective, the significance of these events was to demonstrate a potential for political and electoral strategy.
He responded by falling back on a reformist, electoral strategy.
That party has chosen nationalism as its electoral strategy.
We need to make a distinction between the first-principles conversation and the one on electoral winning strategies.