With these houses up and running, Long Islanders will now have most geographic bases covered.

While independent candidates sometimes win many popular votes, they generally need a geographic base to win states and therefore electoral votes.

A Republican who can't win in the South, the biggest geographic Republican base, has no chance at all.

The geographic bases of audiences have been expanded.

He is not vulnerable on the question of his ethnicity or his geographic base.

Under his prodding, the school has expanded a limited geographic base.

For the Republicans, a brokered convention was also forecast because of the number of strong candidates and their different geographic bases.

The vice president's struggle to solidify his geographic base stems from several factors, political analysts said.

Although it has expanded outward from its original geographic base, most new restaurants are located in Southern suburban areas.

Mr. Miller also failed to lay claim to any particular racial, ethnic or geographic base of support.