But jokes aside, Miliband's electoral strategy doesn't just make economic sense for a party as cash - strapped as Labour — it makes political sense too.
Not exact matches
While the triangulation
strategy may mesh well with the cold rationality of
electoral marketing and reflect the party's new maturity as a party of government, it will
do little to set political pulses racing.
He
did not decide the objectives of mandatory reselection and an
electoral college, he
did not make decisions on
strategy and tactics along the way.
It reveals an
electoral strategy which proved fruitful for the Tories that came before him and could
do so again.
It certainly didn't stop Farage contesting the Buckingham constituency in 2010, with a performance more memorable for his
strategy of visiting every pub there and for his polling day plane crash than for its
electoral outcome (third behind commons speaker John Bercow and a local independent candidate).
Lord Ashcroft praises Cameron as the man who «rescued the Conservative Party» but criticises the
electoral strategy that meant he
did not win Commons majority
Most cities pursuing the portfolio
strategy, including New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Camden, New Jersey, have
done so with insulation from local
electoral politics.