And if Mr. Romney could win the state's 10 electoral votes — coupled with Colorado's 9 — it would counterbalance a potential loss in Ohio.
Hopefully, there would be enough Republican votes coupled with the Democrats to block the nomination.
Given the state of Omnicare, this type of lockup – a force-the-vote provision coupled with a voting agreement for less than a majority of a target company's shares – is undoubtedly acceptable.
Some election supervisors said that fewer early voting days — coupled with fewer precincts — would mean long lines on Nov. 6 and possible disenfranchisement.
However Jim Allister's 75,806 votes - coupled with his 13 councillors - will be a reminder to the DUP of the dangers of any radical shift towards the centre.
The tight vote in Spain, coupled with the prospect of greater labor unrest after a warning on Thursday from the main unions that they might call a general strike, suggested that Mr. Zapatero was unlikely to maintain enough political support to push through next year's budget, some analysts said.
In essence, this mirrors the process in caucus states like Iowa, where there is a beauty contest vote for presidential preference coupled with a separate vote for delegate allocation.
Smiling, she hailed "a great movement across the world" in which the UK's vote to leave the European Union, coupled with Trump's US election victory, heralded the dawn of a new world order.
The instant Republican resistance to the jobs plan — coupled with a vote this week to kill a deficit-reduction panel that had been initiated with high bipartisan hopes — illustrated the chasm between the two parties and the difficulties Mr. Obama faces if he is serious about trying to work with an energized opposition.
TORONTO — PRESIDENT OBAMA'S failure to get Congress to support airstrikes in Syria, coupled with the vote against military action in the British House of Commons, brings home a key fact about international politics: when given a choice, democratic peoples are reluctant to authorize their leaders to use force to protect civilians in countries far away.
