After all, with 90 firearms for every 100 Americans, it is clear that gun owners form a very large voting bloc in this country, and given the passion with which a lot of them love guns, and the extremism with which some of them interpret the Second Amendment, it is obvious that any politician who advocates gun control is gambling with those votes.
I have a worry that if it's a very large 'no' vote, Westminster will ignore Scotland entirely in years to come.
The former Tory prime minister, who can also turn a telling phrase when he puts his mind to it, argues that "the tyranny of the majority" cannot simply dictate the terms of exit, especially not on an issue of such gravity and when a very large minority voted the other way.
That's why the campaign is talking more about South Carolina, where a very large African American vote might suffice in a way that Nevada's smaller Latino vote may not.
I hope that the text will be adopted by a very large majority in the vote tomorrow.
In states where there is a very large black population, the black vote can offset a racially motivated white vote.
According to a UN University report on global governance, a very large proportion of the voting rights in the World Bank are vested in the hands of a very small number of industrialised countries, the major shareholders, in terms of their paid-up capital (U.N. University 2001).
If the predictions are right, a very large number of people are going to vote Ukip and Green for very, very few seats.
"Wisconsin was the only open primary, and you saw a very large number of Republicans come over to vote," he said.
That influence would be felt very directly indeed if a very large number of Israeli Arabs were to vote for Meretz or any of the other parties that supports peace talks with the Palestinians.
