Elections are about narrative; as such, money and partisan reporting are vital to shape a story line that moves a majority of voters.
Apart from a few mild jokes, it was a vigorous attack on Helms over a set of economic-populist pocketbook issues that Gantt hopes will move a majority of North Carolina voters to choose him: Helms's record of not supporting Social Security, his votes to curb the growth of Medicare spending, his votes against increases in the minimum wage, and so on.
After many decades of economic isolation and stagnation, India now has momentum in the global economy, and the chance to finally move a majority of its people out of poverty in the coming decades.
It invariably involves wholesale demolition, moving a large majority of residents away from their homes and areas, replacing low-cost social renting with high-cost housing for sale, shared ownership or "affordable" rents.
The majority then moved a few blocks west to El Bronx.
A strong showing for his party could embolden Mr. Maliki to expand his hold on the levers of power, further alienate his Sunni Muslim rivals by moving toward a majority government dominated by fellow Shiites and propel him to a third term as prime minister next year.
Mr. Maliki has presided over an unwieldy power-sharing government, which nominally gives prominent roles to Sunnis but in reality has resulted in political stasis, and he has signaled in recent months that he would prefer to move to a majority government, dominated almost solely by Shiites.
Slade said: "It would be quite a sensible thing to have an Energiewende [Germany's plan to move to a majority of renewable energy sources] but the emphasis would have to be on our own version not a direct cut and paste".
After graduating from the reverend's alma mater, Morehouse College, he spent two years at Lehman Brothers working as an investment banking analyst, moving from a majority black campus environment to the old boys' club of classic American capitalism.
As the population of high school graduates moves towards a majority of students of color, the inclusion of the cultural and artistic phenomenon of hip-hop, an art form birthed out of the Bronx, NY by African-American youth, is essential.
In an unexpected move, a majority of the justices upheld the expansion as a constitutional exercise of Congress's spending clause powers, while at the same time, a majority barred Congress from punishing states that refuse to adopt the new expansions by withholding all funding for the remainder of their Medicaid programs.
