Those groups would be widely credited with a Kerry win in Ohio, a GOP-dominated state where Democrats have a particularly weak party apparatus.
Traditionally, the House has had relatively weak party discipline.
With support for his party weak ahead of an election he has promised to call soon, Mr Noda had to offer some party stalwarts cabinet posts to maintain unity.
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Mr Toledo has called in as prime minister Luis Solari, who heads his weak Peru Posible party and was briefly his health minister.
Not long afterward, having decided that the Whig Party was weak and outmoded, Seward became a primary force in the birth of the Republican Party.
Churchill had just taken office, and his standing with the dominant Conservative Party was weak.
His support among core Democratic Party voters is weak: he defected to them from the GNP only in 2007.
The Democrats are the party of a weak, floating dollar, subject to the whims of an unaccountable Federal Reserve.
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"Political party machines are weak in Pakistan, so what we have is family machines, " said Ali Cheema, a professor of economics at Lahore University of Management Sciences.
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Though the party system is weak in Afghanistan and few senior leaders attended the joint news conference Wednesday, representatives of many groups that issued the statement hold high-level positions in the Afghan government, military and law-enforcement agencies.
It also proves that all the hard work put in by Mr Gandhi - and nobody denies that - does not translate into votes and seats if the local party organisation is weak and leadership is virtually non-existent, as happened in Uttar Pradesh.
Mireya Moscoso, the current president, is widely regarded as weak and ineffectual, and her party's candidate is trailing badly.
Eisenhower even won in five Southern states, including Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana and Virginia, where the Republican Party had historically been weak.
However, the coalition government led by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is weak.
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The beer seemed to be working its way through him quickly, and another member of our party teased him about his weak bladder.
He leaves a deeply divided country where the gradual fractures of his Peronist party feed the hopes of a weak and fragmented opposition.
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However. the Conservatives said party leader Ed Miliband was "weak".
Despite a weak performance in local elections in June, the party still controls 16 of the big metropolitan councils.
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"Obviously, the fact that consumer confidence and agricultural prices are weak is going to weigh heavily against the Democrat Party, " says Marshall.
Some members of the CDU believe that Angela Merkel, who took over as party leader after Schaeuble stood down, is too weak a candidate for chancellor.
With an eye on a possible White House run in 2016, Rubio, a tea party favorite, has been careful not to appear weak on border security or create political problems among the conservatives who have great sway in picking the GOP's nominee.
But Mr Cameron dismissed the claims as "weak and wrong", arguing that Labour was guilty of using the "Leveson inquiry for party political purposes".
But in his weak result, many saw the likelihood of a harder-line figure from the dominant Malay UMNO party emerging to displace him.
Labour see the Lib Dems as the weak link in the coalition and they will be applying as much pressure as possible to Nick Clegg's party by suggesting that the 'new politics' of partnership should not mean saying one thing in opposition and doing another in government.
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