Two blocs of lawmakers may vote for the Ney bill: black and Hispanic Democrats and Republican moderates, including some freshmen.
For comparison purposes, the EU27 countries are split into two blocs: EU15 pre-19955) and EU12 (joined in 1995).
Western Europe does not seem to be as involved as USA and Soviet Union in confrontations for the first places, a high field opposition between the two blocs.
However, under the bonnet of the two blocs, the mechanics that could propel one to No 10 are more complicated for Cameron than they are for Miliband.
Most countries belong to at least two blocs.
That means that the overall balance between the two blocs is unchanged – ie with Miliband's bloc ahead.
The central government is now objecting that ExxonMobil, America's largest oil company, is heightening tensions through a new deal struck just last month, even as the American military was pulling out of the border region, for six exploration blocs in the north.
A year earlier, in 1985, in the largest cold war spy swap, 23 westerners jailed for espionage in East Germany and Poland were released to the US in exchange for four eastern bloc spies, including Marian Zacharski, Poland's most famous spy.
Membership is split up into three blocs.
If we, nevertheless, assume the best case scenario for both the European and the Arab blocs with regard to their ability to retain as distinct blocs through internal stabilization at least in the short-run, we will find a world divided between seven blocs: three major ones, two stable and two potentially unstable second-rank powers.
