"Some traditional Democratic constituencies are moving toward the Republicans."
Still, the issue is likely to help Democrats mobilize their traditional constituencies.
This appealed to traditional liberal constituencies and pre-empted any bid from his left.
But lacking traditional constituencies and funds, they were unable to translate that into campaign success in the following spring.
Third, in the Democratic primaries, traditional constituencies like labor unions and members of minority groups still matter enormously.
There were always traditional constituencies, including the financial markets, customers, suppliers and your own people.
The strategy calls for Democrats to distance themselves from traditional constituencies.
But in the process, he disappointed many of his traditional constituencies.
Gore's running a campaign oriented toward the traditional Democratic constituencies" like labor, minorities and women.
That reflects a sea change in traditional political constituencies.