At this early reading, the Democrats appear likely to hold five Senate seats and to have an odds‐on chance of adding one in Illinois.
As counting continued on Friday, Labor looked likely to hold two seats in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland and WA and one each in the ACT, Northern Territory and SA.
Sinn Fein, meanwhile, looks likely to hold its five seats, as the party has in recent years steadily pulled away from its moderate nationalist rivals, the Social Democratic and Labour Party SDLPP).
Finally, just because of the scale of its two landslide victories, Labour is likely to hold on to about ten seats in marginal constituencies it would otherwise lose because of the advantages of incumbency.Not all these biases are immutable, but shifting them will take some doing.
Sometimes the observed correlations are the opposite of what one would expect on the basis of reason alone sometimes, that is, people who hold one belief are less likely to hold other beliefs that are supported by the first one.
The ruling centre-left had a miserable night with 23.6 per cent of the national vote – but seemed likely to hold onto at least four regions.
The Fed has also indicated that it is likely to hold short rates close to zero until late 2014; since bond yields reflect expectations of future short rates, among other things, that promise is likely to have lowered them further.The impact of all this central-bank intervention is not clear.
Think of a duck floating mid-lake on a dull day with nothing to break up the endlessness of the lake, as opposed to two ducks fighting mid-lake which one is likely to hold mid-lake which
On certain stigma items, individuals not born in Canada were twice, three times, and in one case four times more likely to hold a stigmatizing attitude than those born in Canada.
It's the most versatile of the three, more likely to hold a child's interest as she gets older, and ultimately more suited for the long haul.
