1.   Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework.

2.   The scandal had already caused the closure of the bank and had contributed to an unprecedented number of incumbent legislators retiring or suffering electoral defeats.

3.   Barak, he said, is heading for electoral defeat largely because he pushed the Clinton peace proposals so hard, even after months of violence.

4.   Bolick argues that an impending battle over the court also gives embittered liberals a way of energizing their grass roots after electoral defeat.

5.   But if history shows that he did have the right idea, then his four electoral defeats might still be vindicated.

6.   Democratic pressure groups and pundits were spoiling for a court fight to save Gore from electoral defeat.

7.   For many Sandinistas, the electoral defeat was hard to bear.

8.   He did not attend the main celebration, organized by the PRI itself, where members still angry at electoral defeat drowned out his name with jeers and whistles.

9.   Having Gramm gone would be an obvious boost to a Texas Democratic Party reeling from a series of statewide electoral defeats.

10.   His was the second resignation in four years for a Conservative leader after a crushing electoral defeat.