"All three of those people have definite principles and very safe seats, " he says.
In Mid and West Wales, where Mr Michael heads his party list, Labour already has three safe seats.
That the worst expenses scandals occurred in safe seats, many of which hadn't changed party since the Second World War?
Basically, those who had safe seats survived, and many others did not.
This is partly because they pile up big majorities on high turnouts in safe seats, whereas Labour wins its safe seats on lower turnouts.
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Many argue that redistricting in the state legislature, which ensured that virtually all the incumbents have safe seats, has done more damage than Proposition 13.
It is those statehouses which will be acting on the 2010 census data to redistrict Congressional seats which means, to maximize their safe seats in Congress.
They will claim that politicians with safe seats under first-past-the-post earn more money from second jobs and that reform would force MPs to spend more time working for their constituents.
It would also create two potentially safe Labour seats in west Yorkshire - Leeds South East and Castleford and Leeds Metropolitan and Ossett.
Similarly, the Lib Dems engineered epic victories in previously safe Labour seats such as Burnley and Redcar but flopped elsewhere in the north of England where they had hoped to make gains.
The Tory party's strategy at the boundary review - as a party - was to reduce the number of safe Tory seats so their votes were more evenly spread among more, winnable marginal seats.
The scheming is ultimately aimed, most local party members think, at winning control of Renfrewshire Labour politics in order to secure nominations for Mr Graham's allies in safe Labour seats at Westminster or in the putative Scottish parliament.
At a future general election, enough Labour voters should turn out in the party's heartland to keep the seats safe.
California's legislature did this in 2001, producing cynically squiggly districts that made most of the seats safe for whichever Republicans or Democrats already held them.
That is presumably because the wretches knew their own seats were safe, but it makes it hard to prove the map was partisan.
Their seats are safe from Democrats, so they have no wish to offend people with the power to deselect them in primary contests.
Even though it is pretty unlikely that the leadership there is going to change with this election, these seats were safe until the individual mandate became a tax.
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The coalition now needs another 20 seats for a safe majority.
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The party took four seats from the Conservatives in Sunderland, a safe seat was snatched from the Tories in South Tyneside and the party gained in Gateshead and Hartlepool at the Lib Dems' expense.
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