My arrival tips the comedians into the majority.
"Usually minorities assimilate into the majority," Mr. Abdallah said.
"But we don't want to assimilate into the majority.
That vision brought us into the majority in the first place.
That would vault Mr. Chen's Democratic Progressive Party into the majority.
In 2010, the proportion of the world's population living in cities passed gently into the majority.
Johnson did not, however, try to convert those numbers into the majority leadership.
But it was the recession that finally pushed women into the majority.
A trickle of recruits would merely be "submerged into the majority culture where it is accepted that they will fail to impact on the organisational culture and inevitably assimilate into the majority culture.
That implicitly sets Mr. Bush apart from the conservatives former Speaker Newt Gingrich brought into the majority in 1994.
Campaigning on their party differences, rather than on their compromises, Democrats say, will propel them into the majority again.
