The affinity of the gospel and of the working class lies in this: Any religion that does not get at the working core of persons will not have much hold on them. (religion-online.org)
It took Apple and the development of iTunes to bring some order to the chaos, to the extent that now most people are happy paying for music, and piracy is limited to a hard core of people who never had any intention of paying anyway. (pcworld.com)
There will always be a hard core of people who will vote for Labour and for that matter in a bad years such as 1997 or 2001 for the Conservatives and a lesser core for the Lib Dems. (conservativehome.blogs.com)