This suggests the percentage lead for the Yes vote appears to have increased from just 3% to 23%.
But since the strike the gap has narrowed to eight points: opinion polls showed a similar lead before the Maastricht vote.
It will immediately raise expectations that he is preparing to lead Congress for the vote in 2014.
But it had a far bigger lead going into the vote than the Tories do today, and some of that movement has already been reversed in 2001 and 2005.
It also comes in the wake of Ken Livingstone's successful bid last year to lead the London Assembly - winning the vote against Frank Dobson, the former health secretary who was Tony Blair's choice for the job.
Jean-Michel Servant in the Midi Libre daily says the uncertain outcome of the vote "might well lead to the explosion of the UMP - or hasten the return to business of a certain Nicolas Sarkozy".
The lead-up to next month's vote has seen the same, typical -- and at times stereotypical -- Beirut antics.
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Sharif expressed a desire to work with all parties to solve the country's problems in a victory speech given to his supporters in the eastern city of Lahore as his lead in the national election became apparent based on vote counts announced by Pakistan state TV.
Although Silvio Berlusconi's People of Liberty party is doing badly in the polls, the left-wing Democratic Party is in the lead and currently predicted to poll around 30% of the vote.
In May, a Field poll gave Ms Boxer a slim lead, with 47% of the vote to his 43%.
Hillary Clinton has had a substantial lead over Barack Obama in the black vote, and for the first time now those numbers seem to be slipping in Obama's favor.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday pledged to veto the compromise legislation, triggering an override vote that Ms. Quinn pledged to lead in the council.
Now this could lead to a postal vote involving all the Chelsea 450, 000 members.
Many of the freshmen Republicans in the House who are driving the no vote have suggested that this is only a preliminary vote, and that going a few weeks before there is a final vote will just lead to the spending cuts they seek.
If you believe the pollsters, the vote this weekend will lead to a run-off on May 5th between two candidates who between them have won just two-fifths of the vote in a first round for which fewer than 70% of the electorate bothered to turn out.
Even after supporting him in the no-confidence vote, many LDP members are leery about having Mori lead the party into the upper house polls due next July.
In the Georgia race, Democrat John Barrow has an 8, 397 vote lead over incumbent Republican Max Burns, with 99 percent of the district's precincts reporting.
The studies did not link the pesticides to the collapse of whole bee colonies, but did raise enough issues to lead to a vote last month for a 2-year precautionary ban by the European Commission.
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In seats where the party had a lead of 20 percentage points or more at the 1997 general election, its vote tumbled by 22 points.
To get a vote on that, the lead sponsor of a bill, with the backing of six other members, must make the request in writing.
The vote went to a run-off after the Mr Kufuor established a clear lead in the first round earlier in December - 48% to Mr Mills's 41% - but failed to secure an outright majority.
There's no guarantee the approximately 1, 400 voting members will follow the national board's lead in its May vote.
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Mary Jo White, nominated last month by President Barack Obama to lead the agency, wouldn't be able to vote on any case involving the New York bank for two years after taking the job.
But a loss of 1, 400 seats would imply a lead over the Tories in terms of a national equivalent vote share of only some 4%, which would be very disappointing compared with Labour's 31% national opinion-poll lead.
The prime minister's mysterious aversion to Rhodri Morgan, the most popular candidate to lead the party in Wales's new Assembly, persuaded many Labour supporters last May to abstain or vote for the nationalist Plaid Cymru opposition instead.
However, the vote was taken despite objections from the Alliance leader who expressed concern it would be unhelpful and might lead to further instability.
It is critical to vote for leaders that will lead our country in the right direction.
Allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in the Scottish independence referendum will not lead to them voting in all UK elections, the UK government has said.
Democrats have an early-vote lead of 40, 000 over Republicans, and the Democrats have the largest registration advantage ever of 15 percent compared to 2008.
That lead to a breakdown in ongoing talks with the Europeans and a preliminary vote at the International Atomic Energy Agency to send the issue to the UN Security Council.
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