Usually, when there is a general election, the president chooses the leader of the winning coalition.
He has stitched together a winning coalition and perhaps a governing one as well.
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But, some members of the winning coalition may well misinterpret that message.
Some 30 years after Ronald Reagan assembled his winning coalition, the task of any candidate who wants to unite conservatives remains largely the same: Run on a message that brings together economic libertarians, defense hawks and social conservatives.
That hope depends, however, on the ruling coalition winning the election, but too narrowly to continue sensibly in government.
This followed his Mega Combination coalition's winning 23 out of the 51 seats in parliament in May, thereby becoming the largest single party.
Obama kept his demographic coalition together as well, winning the votes of African-Americans, young people and the more educated and affluent.
They feared not only a larger welfare state, but a revitalized Democratic coalition that might go on winning elections for years to come.
Little has gone right for the liberals since they joined Angela Merkel's coalition in 2009, after winning a record 15% of the vote.
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Mr. Karzai who was first installed by the U.S. after the Taliban was ousted in late 2001 has also wrested new concessions from the U.S., most recently winning an agreement for the withdrawal of coalition special-operations troops from Wardak province, an area west of Kabul that has been a staging ground for insurgent attacks.
The Western-friendly "March 14" coalition increased its majority by one, winning 71 of 128 seats.
His way of winning power, and then holding together a creaky coalition for 30 months, has been to tell people, all people, whatever they wanted to hear.
This is a risky strategy, with Congress counting on winning enough seats to take the lead in forming a coalition, which its currently-piqued allies will then join.
Mr O'Farrell said Mr Clegg was right to believe it was a "two-horse race", but wrong to think the coalition parties were the only ones with a chance of winning, he said.
Even if Mr Roemer ends up winning the election, he may lose the political fight of building a coalition.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after winning a Jan. 22 parliamentary election, this week began formal negotiations with prospective coalition partners.
The party led by Mr Meciar emerged as the largest party in the new Slovakian parliament, winning 19.5% of the votes, but was unable to form a coalition.
Flavier's can-do spirit, combined with his winning, populist ways, led President Fidel Ramos to choose him to head the ruling coalition's senatorial slate.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has insisted no decision has been taken on whether, if returned to power in 2015, Labour would stick with the coalition's spending plans - as Tony Blair did for two years after winning the 1997 election.
While winning the lower house would put Mr Bersani in pole position to form a government, no coalition will be able to rule effectively without control of the Senate.
He is a member of the Wireless Founders Coalition, which, along with Google and several consumer rights organizations, is asking the FCC to require winning bidders in an upcoming auction of wireless spectrum to open up their networks to all devices.
Ehud Barak, the head of the Labour party, which plays second fiddle to Mr Olmert's Kadima in the coalition government and the man who could most easily bring the government down, would stand little chance of winning if an election were called tomorrow.
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