Palin is Palin: if she runs, there's going to be a constituency that would crawl on broken glass to vote for her, no matter how many soap operas cling to her.
And Hillary supporters could protest Obama's glass ceiling by voting for John McCain and the Democratic Party's 2000 vice presidential nominee.
The Church of England will shatter its "stained-glass ceiling" by voting in favour of appointing female bishops.
The TrustTheVote Project Election Technology Framework will turn black box voting into glass box voting, and we think shift the klieg lights off the machinery and on to the human processes.
Still, the no-confidence votes from Glass, Lewis and from Calpers, combined with an earlier recommendation by Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises big investors on proxy votes, suggest that the number of dissident shareholders is growing.
In some ways, Mr Jonathan should have been in a position of weakness at the all-night event in Abuja's Eagle Square, where some 3,500 delegates in colourful traditional robes cast their votes into glass boxes.
The Suffolk County Republican tapped his ring regally on the glass table and called the vote.
(Both I.S.S. and Glass, Lewis do not actually vote shares, but many investors follow their recommendations, or use them as a basis on how to vote).
"Eighteen million cracks", says the New Republic, (referring to Mrs Clinton's 18m votes and the glass ceiling) "and one crackpot .Mrs Palin's arrival on the national stage is inspiring some startling political somersaults.
State Senator Hiram Monserrate, a Democrat from Queens who is fighting charges that he attacked his girlfriend with a broken glass, is the other crossover vote, but he has since been swaying from aisle to aisle.
Mr. Patarkatsishvili is not a shareholder and has no financial, managerial or voting control in Georgian Glass & Mineral Water or Borjomi Water.
