The Lib Dems, after all, have learned how to turn midterm protest into lasting support – many of their MPs, elected in byelection upsets as voters swung heavily against the government, have consolidated their support in subsequent general election.
Consumer confidence and retailers' reports reinforced the idea that the last support of the economy was slipping.
In another section, it examines the aforementioned iPad tax; a tax on the broadcast spectrum; a spectrum auction tax; a tax on ISPs and cell phones; and a tax on advertising (brilliant: taking a cut of the last support of news in America).
The deep south has historically been hostile to gay people, and last year Mississippi was ranked dead last in support of LGBT nondiscrimination laws in a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.
Eventually, the timeline passed the House and Senate, barely, with the last-minute support of reluctant liberals.
But at the time, it was the last-minute support of Senator Bob Kerrey, Democrat of Nebraska, that was considered decisive.
– Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused his leading Republican rival, Rick Santorum, of playing a "dirty trick" by soliciting the last-minute support of Democratic voters in Michigan's closely contested Republican primary.
But the murmurings against Mr. Brown within the Labor Party, which must face the resurgent Conservatives in a general election within two years, are not likely to be stilled by a vote that the government survived only because of the last-minute support of the deeply conservative Democratic Unionists.
His appearance here tonight at a reception for Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee, the Houston Democrat who is unopposed this year, was a favor that Ms. Jackson-Lee sought from the Administration in return for her last-minute support of the trade bill, White House aides said.
