For the first time in 20 years, the Liberal Party, which strongly advocates keeping Canada together and which retained its majority in Parliament, can claim to be the favorite party of Quebec.
Countries with Muslim-majority populations, who can claim women heads of state long before it was even a possibility in the US, devalue women's standing in society with restricted access to the public sphere.
Neither would have a majority if they did; each can claim only about thirty per cent of their respective populations.
Mr. Reid can claim a numerical majority in the next Congress, and, at 53 to 47, it will be bigger than the two-seat advantage he held from 2007 to 2009.
He proclaimed himself "proud to help build a bigger Republican Party, a party that can claim a governing majority for a generation or more by attracting new people to our cause with an appeal to the patriotism that unites us and the promise of a government we can be proud of again.
I am also proud to help build a bigger Republican Party, a party that can claim a governing majority for a generation or more, by attracting new people to our cause with an appeal to the patriotism that unites us and the promise of a government that we can be proud of again.
Since this race began, Mr. McCain has been using issues that are anathema to the conservative wing of his party -- from overhauling the campaign finance laws to shunning large tax cuts in favor of shoring up Social Security -- to draw thousands of new voters to what he argues could be a "bigger Republican Party, a party that can claim a governing majority for a generation or more".
How many other states can claim that the majority of its statewide elected officials prefer bolo ties to regular ties?
Sometimes, polls find majorities favoring contradictory positions, so advocates can claim popular legitimacy for either stance.
None of the coalition parties get everything it wants, but at least the system guarantees a government that can claim to represent a majority of the citizenry.
