Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:He polled poorly in the context of an election in which the party as a whole suffered . Sentence 2:However , Penhaligon had acquired useful experience of fighting election campaigns and picked up additional tips from Wallace Lawler 's practices in inner - city Birmingham .

however