1. Clinton's youthful image made him an extremely electable candidate.

2. His accomplishment has been to make them electable.

3. She is one of the most electable politicians within DPP, enjoying tremendous popularity among the urban and upper-middle class voters.

4. O. P. And he has no authority: Republican voters ignored his call to support a relatively moderate, electable candidate in New York's special Congressional election.

5. But over the past year Mr... Blair has got gradually more unpopular, the Tories have discovered an electable leader in David Cameron and Mr... Brown has grown more impatient.

6. The issue was chosen, cynically, as a way of making the party seem modern, compassionate, young and electable.

7. The party did exactly what Julia Gillard had been warning supporters against doing for months - it burned through a perfectly electable prime minister in a single term.

8. With only five days until the next votes are cast, Huckabee and Obama will try to capitalize on their momentum, while other candidates will try to show they remain electable.

9. Blair already had one enormous achievement to his name: dragging the Labor Party to the electable centre.

10. Kerrey also had a powerful argument that his military record and his popularity in conservative Republican Nebraska made him the most electable Democrat against President Bush.

11. The would-be PM's performance at the News Corp event was seen as a clear sign that Labour was becoming electable – and marked the beginning of a long, close friendship between the two men.

12. A clobbering now would probably make them more likely to turn to an electable candidate in 2008.