The first point to note is that this was a defeat inflicted primarily because Lib Dem peers rebelled or abstained - their normally solid voting bloc split into 39 voting with the government, 26 against and 26 not voting.
Policy positions, not rhetoric, will ultimately win the day with this critical voting bloc.
But some evangelicals, a vital voting bloc for Republicans, are warming up to McCain's plan.
Poles and Polish-Americans (a key voting bloc in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin) were delighted.
That leaves independents, the highly coveted voting bloc that is the holy grail of election year politics.
The government still held a quarter of the shares, a voting bloc large enough to thwart board decisions.
Hispanic Americans have become a more independent voting bloc that resists easy analysis.
Even if MTV can't make Generation Y a huge voting bloc, Rzepka believes the network can still be influential.
In his victory speech, Obama focused on bringing together people of diverse backgrounds rather than courting a single voting bloc.
In 2006, that voting bloc made up 26 percent of North Carolina's electorate and 21 percent of the Virginia electorate.
It was earmarked for inclusion in a 2001 lease sale but held back after objections from Floridians--an important presidential voting bloc.
Independents are a fast-growing voting bloc that tends to lean toward Republicans' fiscal ideology and Democrats' social policies, polls have shown.
The Ford family retained the large voting bloc by keeping its own class of shares established when it went public in 1956.
Catholics are neither because they are not a truly coherent voting bloc.
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African-American voters, for example, were a significant voting bloc in South Carolina, and Hispanic voters were a factor in Arizona and New Mexico.
Even if Catholics are not the voting bloc they were in generations past, their vote will be watched closely in Ohio and elsewhere.
The leaders also asked the International Monetary Fund to speed up changes in its governance to better represent the developing world as a voting bloc.
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Huckabee won in Iowa mainly due to the support of evangelical Christians -- he beat Romney by better than 2-to-1 in this voting bloc.
At the center is a highly sought voting bloc: blue-collar workers.
This OIC constitutes the largest voting bloc in the United Nation.
African-Americans make up the most loyal voting bloc for the Democrats, although there are signs that the socially liberal agenda is alienating some black voters.
But even if he does, there may still be a catch: With more than one grass-roots candidate running, the conservative voting bloc appears to be fracturing.
November's poor showing among Latinos has led to a soul-searching for the GOP, which hopes to make gains among the growing voting bloc in coming years.
Latinos are an important voting bloc to both Democrats and Republicans, representing 9 percent of the eligible electorate and 15 percent of the total U.S. population.
Add all these constituencies up, and they amount to a pretty sizable voting bloc for any presidential candidate who is willing to throw money at the military.
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This year, with 46 million potential voters, not only do Millennials now comprise a full 25% of the voting-age American public, but they also surpass the 39 million senior citizen voters commonly thought to be the most powerful voting bloc.
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Now a 57 state collective which includes every Islamic nation on earth, the OIC, currently headed by Turkey's Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, thus represents the entire Muslim umma (or global community of individual Muslims), and is the largest single voting bloc in the United Nations (UN).
Sunni lawmaker Mohammed al-Khaldi from the opposition Iraqiya bloc said he received complaints from voters in Baghdad and in Diyala province about missing names on voting rolls as well.
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