31.   However, he said, the party was reluctant to eliminate candidates for fear of alienating some voters, particularly Independents.

32.   If Powell tips too far to the right on questions like slowing the growth of Medicare spending, this argument goes, he alienates mainstream voters.

33.   In an era of low turnout and high frustration with politics, the Electoral College is an anachronism that further alienates voters.

34.   Marshall Wittmann, a senior scholar with the Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank, said Republicans are terrified of alienating female voters.

35.   Other candidates have tried this before, arguing that big-money negative advertising battles are bad for democracy, alienating voters.

36.   Pursuing it too vigorously might alienate swing voters.

37.   Rejecting the base-closure recommendations might have won Clinton a few friends in California, but it would have alienated countless voters in other states.

38.   Powell did not alienate black voters by supporting the message, but not the messenger.

39.   Rather than risk alienating voters elsewhere, Clinton is limiting his stops to states like Rhode Island, where he can mobilize Democratic loyalists.

40.   She also has alienated some voters with her support of video gambling as a way to help fund education.