The referendum this weekend will attract a small vote.
"You can go through a whole career without a small vote for anything.
Last week, she gave a small vote of confidence to the currency union when she took her marks into a Bundesbank branch to exchange them at a roughly 2-to-1 rate once and for all.
But in a close race, a small vote can loom large, especially when, as in the case of the Muslim vote, it is concentrated in crucial states like California, Michigan, Virginia and New York.
It was also possible for parties with an extremely small vote to overtake many bigger parties and win seats off preferences from voters who had never heard of them.
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John F. Kennedy overcame his small voting margin with an inspiring inaugural address, a balanced cabinet and a canny use of television to establish his commanding presence as an involved leader.
American Indians constitute such a small voting bloc in national elections, about one million people, that the Census Bureau does not track their participation rates as it does for whites, blacks and Hispanics.
Last year, I missed the small voting window (voting is open this year until Dec. 6) but wrote that I would have supported the microphone that transformed a child's voice into that of T-Pain (a rapper known for his misogynistic odes to mood-altering substances) over the ultimate victor, a tablet computer for babies.
In very small voting groups, in which political encounters are face-to-face and the members are bound together by ties of friendship or common experience, political discussion is mostly informal and may not even require formal voting, because the "sense of the meeting" emerges from the group's deliberations.
