"The need for accuracy must be weighed against the need for finality," the majority insisted, a bare vote ahead of the minority's riposte: "Finality must take precedence over continued judicial process".
Rail has become, like many of the president's priorities, an issue of political identity, and opposition to rail projects is a great way for GOP governors to thumb their nose at the federal government and, by extension, Mr. Obama himself.The vote was close, with 21 senators, the bare majority needed to pass, voting in favour.
Green won by a bare 20,000 votes.
One guest guessed correctly: It was George W. Bush's bare electoral-vote majority in 2000.
In the 1961 election she alone held her seat – by a bare 500 votes.
It fails to reach the bare minimum of reversing the damage caused by Florida's 2011 law, which cut early voting nearly in half.
However, a year later, on June 29 , 2009 while the appeal was pending in the circuit court, the Supreme Court overruled the appeals court's decision in Ricci, by the barest 5-4 vote.
Federal drug regulators have tried for decades to cut down on acetaminophen's toll, but little changed until June 2009, when the F.D.A.'s panel of experts voted by a bare majority to call for a ban on drugs that combine acetaminophen with narcotics.
In addition, the man who administered the oath of office to Mr. Bush just after noon, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, had voted with the bare majority of the Supreme Court last month in Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively ended Mr. Gore's legal contest of the returns from the polls in Florida.
The fact that the best hope for the Democrats in November's midterm elections is for Republicans to select candidates so ridiculous and reactionary that voters have no choice but to vote Democrat lays bare the parlous state of American electoral politics.
