This suggests the recoverable success fees from a losing party will shrink.
Another danger is that, if voter lists remain controversial, a losing party in the election could question the results.
Al Gore and John Kerry each won 48percentthethe best back-to-back performance by a losing party since the 19th century.
Partisan redistricting remains common in American politics, and, while it outrages a losing party, it has so far survived every legal challenge.
It would have required the inconceivable from the Liberal Democrats – a lasting, whipped subservience to a losing party that many of them cordially loathed.
Until now they had faced a simple choice: by backing UMNO's partners, such as the MCA, they could at least win a stake for their ethnic group in the ruling coalition, or they could back a losing party.
He is also said to be favoured by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest tycoon and Mr Yanukovich's sponsor.Yet part of the new president's entourage feels this would be too much of a concession to a losing party.
After the Supreme Court ruled in June that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) -- who was a losing party in that case -- ordered state clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to all couples without regard to sexual orientation.
If the arbitrators do make a ruling, then the losing party pays up.
