«I just want to praise all my colleagues who put a lot of political capital on the line and who are going to get beaten up by people because of it. (fortune.com)
Davey is burning thru a lot of political capital with the fanbase by continually ignoring the elephant - sized hole in the lineup. (sbnation.com)
Thinking of pensions as something more akin to public goods such as education or infrastructure — where what you pay in and what you get out are basically uncorrelated — will be a tough sell to the electorate and will take a lot of political capital. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)