If the 'black vote' votes it will clearly push someone over the line.
We didn't take anyone's votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign".
Because Republicans are trying, for the third time since he took office, to use economic blackmail to achieve a goal they lack the votes to achieve through the normal legislative process.
The two supreme court justices thought likely to cast the deciding votes, Anthony Kennedy and the chief justice, John Roberts, appeared deeply sceptical of the government's contention that healthcare regulation is a special case that gives Congress the power to oblige individuals to obtain insurance.
The votes of the 6,000 members of the invitation-only Academy of Motion Pictures have to be in by March 21.
The project with the most votes will be awarded £1,000 of funding, and two runners-up will each receive funding of £500.
But we have the votes outside the Beltway, and we'll have that fight".
The equal marriage bill was given an overwhelming second reading by 400 votes to 175, a majority of 225.
He said he was "disappointed" by the decision to pull the bill, but suggested party leadership would return to the issue when they could be confident they would have the votes to pass it.
But the 75-year-old ayatollah has become so powerful that the council's supervisory role has diminished to a symbolic one despite members still being elected in public votes.
President Obama appears to be collecting a lion's share of votes cast by early voters in Ohio.
