Besides, coalition with the Tories would surely kill them as a serious national electoral force, just when they've really got started.

"The Radicals, who were the linchpin of the system for the entire 20th century, have been disarticulated as a national electoral force."

That makes it hard to transfer historical prestige into electoral force.

Older Americans already exercise formidable electoral force, given how many of them vote.

The Liberal Party only survived as an electoral force until 1944.

These groups had sought to mobilise conservative and evangelical Protestants as an electoral force.

The fact is, the vaunted youth vote never became the electoral force that some expected it to be.

Labor-based political parties have been an important electoral force in every advanced capitalist country.

Even at its peak the Radicals was never a major electoral force in the country.

But Labour needs to be not just an electoral force, but also a movement for change.