Now it is picking up votes among the poor, thanks to a strong organisation and Mr Lavin's populist bent.
To shore up votes for Kadima and Labor, the media had to swallow their pacifist pride and rally around the flag.
The country is now totting up votes cast by expatriate Italians in cities such as New York and Buenos Aires for six new Senate seats.
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They may attend events where Thais traditionally drum up votes, such as fairs, weddings and birthday parties, but they may not organise them.
The activists first attacked a moderate Republican, Mark Holsten, but Tim Pawlenty, who was then the Minnesota House majority leader, rounded up votes to save him.
The count in Palm Beach County is aimed at picking up votes missed by the flawed Votomatic punch card system, which the county had been advised to abandon years ago.
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The party that does not control the White House almost always picks up votes in the mid-terms, as the Republicans did spectacularly in 1994 (though they have been losing ground in the Senate since then).
If the potential for a major financial crisis does persuade House Republicans to go along in the end, however, the speaker could walk away victorious and come out of this legislative mess appearing as the leader who can round up votes.
This leaves the field to liberal Sunnis like Adnan Pachachi of the Iraqi Independent Democrats, who may pick up votes from secular-leaning Iraqis in parts of Baghdad where it is safe enough to go to the polls, and to Sunnis with strong tribal links, such as those of the interim president, Ghazi al-Yawer, and his powerful Shammar tribe.
Katherine Harris is a divisive figure and many Republicans, Jeb Bush, President Bush, and the Republican party leadership in Florida from the outset has said, please, don't run you are not going to pick-up independent votes you are not going to pick-up wavering Democrats, you are too divisive.
Ms Silva, a former environment minister, came third as expected in the election on 3 October, but correspondents say her unexpectedly strong showing means there are up to 20 million votes up for grabs.
The Belgium-Netherlands bid picked up four votes in the first round and two in the second.
He said UKIP had picked up protest votes that might previously have gone to the Lib Dems.
It's a shame to see them pretending little has changed so they can scare up some votes.
But Bush slapped down that measure, and Congress couldn't muster up enough votes to override his veto.
And so you don't scare hardworking Americans just to scare up some votes.
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With two weeks to go, Mr da Silva's slim hopes rest on picking up enough votes to enforce a run-off.
Their candidates have also resorted to those old faithfuls - regional sentiments and money politics - to pick up the votes.
For some, this was a great way to generate a campaign buzz nationwide and pick up electoral votes in the process.
It is his big subject and one of his party's biggest challenges if it is going to pick up Latino votes.
Her rival picked up the votes of anyone who abhors Mr Haider.
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Obama adopted the cynical strategy of the opportunistic politician his campaign was directed to various special interest groups to line up their votes.
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They got their vote out and they picked up other votes elsewhere.
Some pollsters suggest that the MHP's plight has chalked up sympathy votes.
Its judgments were dressed up as votes on committee reports and handed down in House of Lords sittings, although only law lords took part.
Some Democratic officials said that raised questions about whether GOP leaders could round up enough votes to pass the bill even in the House.
The overall result, intended or not, is that enthusiasm for Romney is suppressed, and thereby he ends up losing votes on election day.
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Democrats waged a multimillion-dollar ad campaign and lobbied hard for the bill but still came up 13 votes short of the two-thirds needed to pass.
Conventional wisdom says that it's important to choose a vice president based on his or her home state in order to pick up electoral votes.
That is where Democrats hope to pick up Gore votes.
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