It is that small party vote that is the vote to watch in 2012.
If Mitt Romney wants the conservative and Tea Party vote, he must convince them that he is not a David Brooks Republican.
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Is Huntsman trying to grab up whatever slice of the Tea Party vote he can in order to appeal to the base?
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Faced with a veto threat from the White House, the Senate removed the spending line in a cross-party vote assisted by Republican John McCain.
The whip counts votes and the whip puts pressure on people and holds them in line so that you get a solid party vote.
As voters elsewhere clock the three Icelandic MPs, they may see a Pirate Party vote less as a political statement, and more as a realistic option.
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The five academic forecasters who have got the best track records of predicting election results (usually based on a combination of the state of the economy and public opinion) predict that Mr Gore can expect to win 53-60% of the two-party vote in November.
Registered party members can vote only in their own party's primaries, but independents can vote in either.
New York Democrat Charles Schumer predicted just before the committee's party line vote that William G.
Florida is a closed primary, which means that only registered party members may vote in their own party's primary.
His fifth election, in 2005, was Egypt's first multi-party presidential vote, but many considered that, too, to be a sham.
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The FJP won more than 36% of the party list vote during the first round of elections in late November.
R. 2885, legislation to make E-Verify mandatory across the nation, passed the House Judiciary Committee by a party line vote of 22-13.
David Dreier, one of the leading Republican supporters of the bill, says he reckons that 150 members of his party will vote for it.
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The Muslim Brotherhood said Saturday that its Freedom and Justice Party had won about 39% of the party list vote in six of the 12 voting districts.
But more than half of the Pakistanis polled by the IRI said inflation is the key issue they will consider when choosing which party to vote for.
Mr Blair might not be able to force his party to vote for the tough limits on public spending needed to get the government's finances in shape.
So there is no political benefit to compromise, and as conservative southern Democrats virtually disappear, there are no natural allies left in the Democratic party for vote-hunting GOPers.
New Hampshire has an open primary: Voters can go into a polling place independent, or undeclared, and switch to a party to vote, then re-register as an independent when they leave.
Wednesday's 23-13 party line vote came a few weeks after psychiatrist Robert L. Spitzer, in a letter to the editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, apologized for his 2003 study of reparative therapy, which suggested that it could help gays and lesbians become straight.
Tuesday's open primary also will allow voters to cross over and vote for any candidate regardless of party, with the top vote-getter in each party advancing to the general election.
If all lawmakers vote along party lines and Jeffords gives his vote to Sen.
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That notion is what November's startling tea party and independent vote for the GOP was about, and what the party's Senate and House freshmen appear to understand.
LDP, a vote for the party hardly looks like a vote for the status quo.
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The trials of coalition government having evidently seen off the protest vote, the party now urgently needs a core vote.
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Mike Nesbitt said his party would abstain from a vote because while the party would not support fracking if there were any evidence that damage would be done to the environment, closing down the exploration would have "reputational damage on Northern Ireland PLC".
He'd caucus with the party, which means he'd get to attend and vote at party meetings.
Judith Waintraub in Le Figaro notes that this was the party's first leadership contest to be decided by a vote among party members.
That back-room diplomacy convinced one Sunni group, the Iraqi Islamic Party, to vote for the constitution.
He frequently crossed party lines to vote with Republicans despite being Kentucky's lone Democrat in Congress.
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