"The campaigns are thinking that even small percentages of the vote can matter," Mr. Baldassare said.
Dave is constantly searching for what he calls "marginal gains" – the small percentages that add up to a big difference.
At that time blacks voted in such small percentages in this country, it was a different atmosphere.
Small percentages of calcium are used in many alloys for special purposes.
Small percentages said they had reacted to unpleasant images by vomiting or crying.
Other religions including Bahāʾī, Hinduism, and Judaism are practiced by small percentages of the population.
The trusts and offshore corporations individually owned small percentages of the shares of each company.
Small percentages of natural gas, hydroelectric power, and even solar that houses sell back onto the grid, make up the balance.
It is a working-class town whose population is more than 80percentt white and about 10percentt black, with small percentages of Asians and Latinos.
Under accounting rules, capital costs can be charged as expenses in small percentages over many years, while operating expenses must be declared in the year they occurred.
But only small percentages of employees use these accounts, in part because they don't like the trouble of submitting claims and waiting to be reimbursed, consultants say.
