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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have lost an average of 41 House seats in mid-term elections. (Democrats currently have an 81-seat advantage in the House, so Republicans could gain control of the chamber with a 41-seat pick-up in 2010.) To make matters worse, Republicans now win the generic Congressional ballot by two points, the first time the GOP has outstripped Democrats since January of 2002, according to the George Washington University Battleground Poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Has to Worry About Polls | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...bank balance, then, stifling the strike was key. In applying for the High Court injunction, the carrier argued that the union's ballot wrongly included hundreds of BA staff who had already agreed to take voluntary redundancy before any industrial action would have started. Unite insisted that it had tried to find out which of BA's 13,000 cabin crew were planning to quit but that the airline offered little help. Discounting them would have done little to change the result, though: 92% of voters were in favor of a strike. (See the top 10 worst business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brits Get Some Holiday Cheer: No British Air Strike | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...surprisingly, Unite pledged Thursday to hold another vote, a process that usually takes at least a couple of weeks. But by bungling the first one and choosing to stretch out the proposed strike over 12 days - a duration BA staff weren't aware of at the time of the ballot - Unite may have let the momentum swing BA's way. Derek Simpson, the union's joint general secretary, admitted on Dec. 15 that the length of the stoppage was "probably over the top." Passengers, meanwhile, sided firmly with the airline. "It is disgusting that BA staff realize they can throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brits Get Some Holiday Cheer: No British Air Strike | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

McNiff added that he did not believe Massachusetts’ reputation for being a Democratic stronghold necessarily deterred voters of either party. “The election of a Senator is an important ballot to cast, so I think people would turn out for that reason,” he said...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coakley, Brown Win Nominations To Run For Senate | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...period that the UC should move on from the drama surrounding the presidential elections and direct its attention back to the “business of the council,” the censure motion—which requires a majority vote—passed 26-15-1 by secret ballot...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergraduate Council Votes to Censure VP After Election Scandal | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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