Mr. Gingrich might have raised this issue before the Florida primary, when some polls suggested he could eke out enough of a plurality to benefit from the winner-take-all system.
In this manner, Nussbaum can endow the capability approach with a precision that furnishes an index of interpersonal comparison, but at some risk: that of not being neutral enough regarding the plurality of personal conceptions of the good ?
Under the status quo, all you need is a plurality in just enough states to get you to 270 electors.
The Brotherhood leadership talks of a year or two of transition, although that may reflect a vain hope of using that time to broaden its popular support enough to reach a controlling plurality.
— NATE SILVER Although this is not a major surprise, it looks as though Mitt Romney's performance in Illinois will not be sweeping enough to give him the plurality of the vote outside of Chicago and its suburbs, which would have allowed him to run up his delegate count.
Unless the ten or more parties that are expected to win seats declare a preference for Prime Minister in advance, and Netanyahu emerges as most likely to make a majority, Herzog's projected plurality should be enough to compel Rivlin to award the mandate to him.
At least 20% of the Liberal Democrat deputies could have lost without the support of Soka followers last October, enough to give the opposition Democratic Party a plurality in the Diet.
The CEDA had won a plurality of seats, but not enough to form a majority.
But with 11 Republicans also seeking the seat, Zinn's 17percentt was good enough for first place, and in a plurality, British-style "first past the post" election, it would have given him the victory.
Duterte's off-the-cuff rhetoric, however, was enough to get the support of a plurality of disillusioned voters who saw in him the promise of radical change -- and were willing to turn a blind eye to his plethora of imperfections.
