In a wafer thin vote, exactly 60 senators – the minimum number required – voted to invoke "cloture", the parliamentary measure that cuts off debate and expedites legislation.
It is not that the parties don't want your vote exactly, it is just that they have to concentrate their limited resources on seats where they stand a realistic chance of winning.
What is the point of us going to vote, exactly?" Trump nodded to that argument in his victory speech Tuesday night.
While the NPR story could probably have included more background, in the long run, the situation in Macon specifically, the prolonged and inconclusive disagreement over particulars of a voting law was exactly what the federal preclearance was so effective at stopping.
The Catalan president, Artur Mas, pledged to call a vote in 2014, exactly 300 years after Philip V's troops squashed the Barcelona revolt and also when Scotland votes on independence from the United Kingdom.
The makers of the Pleo are holding a vote to decide exactly what color the new Pleo should be when they change it later this year.
According to diplomats, the five countries, who comprise the so called "Joint Investigation Team" that is focused on the crash, aim to bring the text to a vote by July 21 — exactly one year after the Security Council's first resolution on MH17.
Having run a fiendishly effective campaign, picking up votes exactly where he needed them, Obama had racked up what seemed sure to be a sizable majority in the electoral college.
Instead, it's a model of how parliament might look if the nation votes exactly like the average of the latest polls.
And most of them voted exactly as the bank's board advised them to.
If direct mandates for any party exceed its second-vote ratio, then all the other parties get compensated so that the ratios again reflect the second votes exactly.
