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He has replicated, remodeled many aspects of the BSP organizational structure and these are being implemented in the family pocketborough of Amethi and Rae Bareli.
Election Digest: BJP Will Have Newer Allies After Polls, Says Advani 2009
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MP, Sule was elected to Lok Sabha from Pawar's pocketborough Baramati in 2009 and is widely seen as his successor in the party.
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But with the political atmosphere in Washington turning increasingly toxic, and President Obama's loss of prestige and momentum following the electoral setback in Massachusetts (where his party lost a liberal Kennedy pocketborough), there's a distinct loss of appetite for the Bill in the Senate, which has to pass the legislation and reconcile it with the House version for it to become law.
The Times of India 2010
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But with the political atmosphere in Washington turning increasingly toxic, and President Obama's loss of prestige and momentum following the electoral setback in Massachusetts (where his party lost a liberal Kennedy pocketborough), there's a distinct loss of appetite for the Bill in the Senate, which has to pass the legislation and reconcile it with the House version for it to become law.
The Times of India 2010
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The state has long been considered a liberal stronghold, a Kennedy pocketborough which the lion of the Senate held for nearly half a century from the time he was first elected in 1962 and eight times thereafter.
The Times of India 2010
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The 36-year-old son of the Chief Minister is the Congress candidate from Kadapa that has been the family's pocketborough for over 25 years now.
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Shastri, who once defeated Singh in his pocketborough some time back, was in BJP till recently.
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Inspite of the bitterness which followed the separation, the two parties have, however, kept the door for a possible post-poll reconciliation ajar with the Congress deciding not to field candidates in Saran and Pataliputra, seats from where Lalu is seeking election and also at Hajipur, which is considered Paswan's pocketborough.
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AMETHI / RAE BARELI: In the pocketborough of the Gandhi-Nehru family, the race for the opponents of the Congress is not to emerge as a winner in the Lok Sabha polls but to get the second position.
The Times of India 2009
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NCP leader Sharad Pawar might have vacated his pocketborough Baramati for daughter Supriya Sule but it has attracted seven women candidates, the largest in the second phase.
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