Santorum had hoped that might sway enough minds to hit the magic 67-vote margin, but it did not.
In 1972, Nixon won another term by a popular-vote margin of twenty-three points.
But when you break that number down across precincts, do you know how many the vote margin is by precinct?
President Obama won the College convincingly, 332 to 206, even though his popular vote margin was only a tad above 2%.
"It's not going to be easy with a six-vote margin...we have our work cut out for us, " in passing a Republican agenda in Congress, he said.
Republicans held an 11-vote margin in the 105th Congress, and GOP leaders had been hoping to add up to 40 seats in the November 3 election.
The third important factor has been the maturing of political leaders, which was stupendously displayed in the 2008 elections, which the ruling NDC party won by a mere 40, 000-vote margin.
If they have, say, a 20 vote margin in the House of Representatives, Colombia's chances are good, but if it is very close....This is why it is so important for us to move forward with other FTA's.
The probability of a tie (or, if the voter count is odd, a one-vote margin) would be the probability that when you flip a coin 5.2 million times you get exactly 2.6 million heads and 2.6 million tails.
After Senate leaders jockeyed for days over procedural issues tied to consideration of the bills, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, unexpectedly announced Wednesday morning that Republicans would agree to Democratic demands and hold back-to-back votes requiring neither side to garner a filibuster-proof 60-vote margin.
As expected, the budget failed to pass the full Senate vote by a margin of 57-40.
To avoid a runoff, Correa needed a simple majority or 40 percent of the vote plus a 10-point margin over the No. 2 vote-getter.
According to reports, the NO vote defeated the YES vote by a larger margin.
Yet Democrats won the House popular vote by a 1% margin, 49%-48%.
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But he said most in the past have ended as one did this week near Glens Falls, losing by a 4:1 margin in a vote of the residents.
Meanwhile, independent voters say they are more likely to vote Republican, by a margin of 10%, according to YouGov. The Democrats trail among white, male, middle-class voters in particular.
ECONOMIST: The only question is just how bad it will be for the Democrats
We've been reporting from the battleground survey the Republican turnout model, but frankly, our internal work and our internal model would have the Democratic vote - would have the margin more like five, six points, seven points because we believe more new voters, more people of color turning out to vote.
Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.
Obama ended up taking Florida and won the election by a wide margin in the electoral vote.
The new Republican speaker, who will not be Dennis Hastert, will enjoy a margin of only one vote.
The centre-left won the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, with a wafer-thin margin of the nationwide vote.
In delegate-rich states such as California, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut, the Catholic vote went for Clinton by a margin of 2 to 1.
In the remaining states, the amendments passed with 60 percent of the vote or more, with the margin at a whopping 86 percent in Mississippi.
But just what if President Obama wins re-election with a tiny margin in the popular vote but carries the Electoral College by 136 (or 139) votes?
Americans by a wide margin now claim they will vote for congressional candidates who oppose him.
The Senate passed gay marriage legislation by a comfortable 26-12 margin, following a House vote of approval in January.
Mr. DINKINS: Well first off, when he accepted the post of lieutenant governor the margin was not then one vote, it was slightly largely.
More debate and more votes are still necessary before the bill can become law, but the wide margin of February's vote -- 400-175 -- suggests that it may have the support it needs to eventually pass.
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