If these unbound delegates aren't enough to give someone the majority and the first ballot fails to nominate anyone, there will have to be more maneuvering and voting.
Sri Lanka has managed to avoid any international accounting of the civilian casualties, maneuvering votes in the Human Rights Council in Geneva, an intergovernmental body established by the United Nations, to stop calls for an independent investigation.
Republican lawmakers, who called the Democrats cowards and accused them of abandoning their posts, made numerous efforts to get them back, including holding their paychecks, stripping their parking spots, issuing fines, threatening arrest and pursuing other legislation before ultimately maneuvering to vote without them.
They discovered long ago what it took to keep afloat a village where traditional work is eschewed in favor of religious study: government subsidies and the political maneuvering -- like voting as a bloc -- needed to keep those subsidies coming.
In 1984 they used controversial legal maneuvers to steal away voting control from outsiders who'd originally bought into a one-share, one-vote structure.
However, Republican operatives maneuvered the Senate into voting before Gardner's speech opening the 1857 session, and Sumner was easily reelected.
Even by congressional standards, this was a cynical maneuver, since many of those voting aye had earlier supported the prison's closure.
And it's a smart maneuver: nothing says "maverick," like voting against Bush and standing with the American public, who remain very wary of the proposal.
After a day of maneuvering and voting on Monday that lasted into early Tuesday, he won 35 votes, just three more than Assad Mustafa, a former agricultural minister under Mr. Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.
Yet after months of complicated financial maneuvering, EMC shareholders voted overwhelmingly last month to approve the sale.
Mr. Reid maneuvered aggressively in recent days to strong-arm Republicans into voting for the plan.
