Republicans said their party base is angry, and not willing to give up.

The black party base questioned the fact that the leadership was exclusively white.

Government forces have been blended with the party base.

What would be really useful is to superimpose on these charts the government's party base.

Critics argued that he lacked popularity with the party base.

He has swept several old conservatives from power and reduced the party base of others.

Once elected he, as with the incumbent, wouldn't have needed the party base for 4 more years.

Once an independent force hammering at the president and Congress, they are now an institutional part of the party base.

These experiments were opposed by the more traditional centre-right wing of the party base.

People do not understand how a President could function without a party base.