Not if tiny dissident factions can seize the stage to score political points directed to a larger audience.
So was Mr. Ting trying to score political points by attacking an unpopular deep pocket?
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Rhodri Morgan says the opposition are just "grandstanding" - playing games to score political points.
Mitt Romney has been trying hard to score political points on foreign policy, without much success.
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But the key here is for people to be practical and not to score political points.
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Another option might be baiting Pakistan, but that would be a dangerous way to score political points.
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And I hope everyone comes with a shared desire to solve this challenge, not just score political points.
"That is separate from an attempt by Republican members of Congress to try to score political points, " he said.
And I knew politics being what it is, that some people would try to score political points off our decisions.
Hispanics will vote for the right kind of Republican, i.e. one who doesn't pick on them to score political points.
Both sides in the contentious immigration debate accuse the other of cynicism and using a national tragedy to score political points.
And shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley accused Mr Burnham of trying to score political points with voters ahead of the election.
Reasonable people should wait for the facts to come out before jumping to conclusions -- or trying to score political points.
In Suffolk County, local activists are blaming public officials who have crusaded against illegal immigration to score political points with their constituents.
It ought to be about problem-solving and governance, not just how we can score political points on each other or engage in obstructionism.
Partisans looking to score political points overlooked the fact that people have died and rushed to blame the shooting on the Tea Party.
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What this is about, after all this time and all these documents and all the testimony, is an attempt to score political points.
Democrats say the GOP is using the issue to try to score political points by discrediting Holder and Obama in an election year.
Could it be this was intended to score political points by having its arrival coincide with the anniversary of the president's "mission accomplished" speech?
So the purpose served in pursuing this line of questioning is unclear to me beyond an attempt to continue to try to score political points.
KMT, for its part still smarting from its electoral loss has been rumoured to be selling its own shareholdings, in part to score political points against the government.
But it wants to exploit their situation in the Iraq war, to score political points at home and how can it be doubted? to gain their loyalty.
And hopefully -- one can hope that Republicans will at the last minute change their mind about deciding to try to score political points out of this.
Political opponents and even some relatives of the trapped miners have speculated in recent weeks that Pinera was trying to score political points from the miners' rescue.
On the other side of the table, some of the committee members used the occasion to score political points rather than further the objectives of the hearing.
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Has he seen any of these ways Democrats are using the Ryan plan to win elections and score political points, and does he have any issue with that?
But they would need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, and an election year gives the Republicans an extra incentive to use the hearings to score political points.
So I mean, I think we can score political points on the basis of the fact that we underestimated how severe the job losses were going to be.
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There is some hope that the congressman might be beginning to grasp where he is taking the country in the effort to score political points with the right-wing base.
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