His speech at the convention was cautious in attacking the regime but ambitious in strategy : he wants to decentralise the country , bring back mayoral elections in moscow and st petersburg , and turn the local heads of the police , the tax inspectorate and the courts into electable posts .
Optimists will point out that the republicans , no less than the democrats , tend to flirt with extremes in the primaries , then select an electable moderate ( with mr romney being the likely winner this time ) .
Mr cameron will be cast as the tory version of neil kinnock , the labour leader in 1992 , who did much to make his party electable again after years in opposition , but ultimately lost the election to john major , an unloved incumbent leading a tired government , in the teeth of a nasty recession .
Mr gabriel is popular in the party but may not be electable .
加布里尔在党内很受欢迎,但可能不会当选。
The panhellenic socialist movement ( pasok ) , the only other electable party that supports reform , would come a distant third with 11.8 % .
泛希社运是唯一一个支持改革并有候选资格的政党,它仅获得11.8%的选票,远远落后排在第三。
Last year , when conservatives were searching desperately for someone both solidly conservative and electable , mr thompson 's name came up .
去年,当保守派们不顾一切地寻找既坚定保守又具有当选可能的人选,他们选中了汤普森先生。
His task is to make his party electable , though his claim that " there is no lesson to be learned from the 2009 electoral defeat " suggests he has not yet given the matter much thought .