The Labour team is worried that Mr Miliband could emerge from the election with enough votes in the Commons to command a majority with the informal support of the SNP, but that the Tories could then try to exploit the lack of a clear winner to remain in power for at least a month.
The comment was seen as a jibe at Neil Portnow, the Grammys president, who drew criticism last year when he responded to comments about the lack of female winners by saying that women needed to "step up".
Safe to say that the sport, much less celebrated now, more under siege, has become poorer for the lack of winner's-circle superstars to do for the horses — preen and promote — what they can't do for themselves.
The "Ugly Betty" star said the lack of Latina Golden Globe winners is more a symptom of an industry that has yet to fully explore the diversity that exists across the country.
It is not the lack of a winner that suggests our own Triple Crown is dead.
Jonathan Galassi, the publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, said he was "shellshocked" by the lack of a winner in fiction.
In a letter to the Times in which he says he is "ecstatic about the lack of a winner," a writer named Doug Magee, author of a book not nominated, objects to the idea that a book chosen for an award is automatically deemed "the best of the year".
Baffert has a theory for the lack of Derby success for the Juvenile winner.
Ahmed's historic win "punctuates the lack of Asian actor winners," she said.
