If the minority-vote share increases and Mr Obama maintains his popularity with minority voters, more than three in five white voters could reject him and he would still win.
And yet, for all his clout, Mr Bauer is limited by the fact that only a minority of Americans see politics through his religious lens, just as only a minority go along with Mr Gephardt's union-based protectionism.
Mr Zapatero heads a minority government that is seven seats short of an absolute parliamentary majority.
Mr Poots said a minority should not besmirch the good work of the majority.
Mr Wilson agreed with Mr Turner that a minority of people were involved but said there "was a problem".
Mr Harper's minority Conservative government was toppled in a confidence vote on Friday.
Given the inherent instability of Mr Ahern's minority coalition government, a fresh election is probably only 18 months away, at most.
Though the party is nowadays a shadow of its former self, its support especially in the upper house has helped Mr Hashimoto's minority government remain in power.
Mr Michael's minority Welsh government has always been vulnerable to defeat.
Because Mr Harper runs a minority government that could fall at any time, he has chiefly focused on short-term, voter-pleasing issues like cracking down on illegal immigration.
That left Mr Gross with a minority Social Democrat-led cabinet, forced to rely on the unreformed Communists - untouchables in Czech politics - to survive a vote of no-confidence.
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Any concession which could be portrayed as surrender would undermine Mr Gowda's fragile minority government.
Last November Ms Williams brokered a deal with Mr Jones to pass his minority administration's spending plans.
Mr. Carter is a minority owner in the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets.
The minority government that Mr Ahern now plans to form may have to take some much tougher decisions than either of its predecessors.
Mr Gujral runs a fragile minority coalition government that depends for survival on the support of the Congress party, which has long ruled India.
Mr Colmenares is from a minority party, and he is likely to face a tough challenge, not just from opponents in Congress but also the powerful Catholic Church.
With many more demands ahead including an urgent need for reconciliation between the Sinhalese majority and the bruised Tamil minority Mr Rajapaksa's government is looking as clumsy and paranoid as ever.
He says the party plans to copy the tactics of Mr Harper, who led minority governments between 2006 and 2011 but was able to govern as if he had a majority by skilfully soliciting support from opposition parties.
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Reflecting on his years as the finance minister in PV Narasimha Rao's minority government, Mr Singh told journalist Vir Sanghvi that the liberalisation process he initiated in 1991 ground to a halt after "politics took over on December 6, 1992", the day Hindu fanatics demolished the Babri mosque.
Mr Gross will now lead a minority government propped up by the largely unreformed Communists.
Senator Ernest Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat, and Richard Gephardt, the House minority leader, support Mr Helms's idea.
Even the nationalists among Kosovo's Serb minority have turned against Mr Milosevic, accusing their former hero of betrayal.
Most of the city's Alawites, the minority sect to which Mr Assad belongs, have remained loyal to the regime.
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Perhaps because polls showed his approval ratings plunging, Mr Giuliani offered to meet the minority leaders he had hitherto ignored.
It was Congress-Samajwadi rivalry that failed to extend the last parliament: Mr Yadav refused to back a minority Congress government.
Why should such a Jewish minority be forbidden in Mr. Fayyad's Palestine?
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Mr Tronchetti Provera has even more minority shareholders to keep sweet.
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The worry is that the Czech Republic's last experiment with a minority coalition Mr Klaus's ill-fated right-wing government, which lasted less than 18 months has set a dismal precedent.
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