Is the hope now that California will become a kingmaker in a way it hasn't been?
LDP's kingmaker and is peeved that Mr Abe has not heeded all his advice was ominous.
Mr Ozawa was kingmaker, as both faction leader and LDP secretary-general, but never prime minister.
But it could be a kingmaker if neither of its rivals wins a majority.
This included the PVV, the former kingmaker led by the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant Geert Wilders.
Plainly, barring a wholly unexpected upset, Mr Lieberman will be kingmaker after the vote.
He was the headline-grabber, the deal breaker and certified kingmaker of the coalition.
He can probably expect to be at least a kingmaker, if not king.
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During the heyday of the 1990s tech boom, Quattrone was the kingmaker.
Moreover, even as kingmaker, it is not at all clear that Mr King could bring about the change he seeks.
Mr Tyhypko, who once posed for the cover of a men's health magazine, could be the kingmaker in the second round.
That would leave them with a good chance of playing kingmaker in an endless series of left-leaning or right-leaning coalition governments.
The kingmaker is likely to be Ivica Dacic, leader of the Socialist Party, which with its allies is polling at 11.8%.
If we see the same fall-off this time around, the youth demo will likely lose the kingmaker status it held in 2008.
He adds that Microsoft can play kingmaker here, given its pivotal role as the provider of search services on the site.
Lieberman stayed with the Democrats, but for a while anyway, he was seen as the most important lawmaker, or kingmaker, in Washington.
His barely concealed ambition, to be not merely the richest man in Russian business but also the kingmaker, may yet be realised.
He has much more power in his now very strong kingmaker position.
That made Berlusconi the coalition kingmaker at a time when the nation is counting on action to create jobs and enact political reform.
But in South Carolina, widely respected for its kingmaker role in recent GOP nomination fights, Romney finished fourth behind former Tennessee Sen.
The retirement of former PM and LDP kingmaker Takeshita Noboru, 76, is widely regarded as heralding a generational change in the hidebound party.
And if he turned out to be Congo-Brazzaville's kingmaker, he would have great influence in an oil-rich country with a major port on the Atlantic coast.
Peters, whose populist New Zealand First party came third, is kingmaker.
Takeshita was his successor as Japan's unofficial "kingmaker" in the 1990s.
China has traditionally been a kingmaker in isolated and sanctioned countries and well-placed to capitalize on the infrastructural and extractive needs of emerging economies as well.
Few expect him to be the next prime minster, but his party could play a role as a kingmaker or form a solid opposition in parliament.
One of the biggest is the Mahdi Army, belonging to Muqtada al-Sadr, a troublemaking Shia cleric who has become something of a kingmaker in Shia circles.
In a parliament almost sure to be split between four or five parties, the military's 55 seats could therefore give it a crucial political role - kingmaker.
As Chart Pattana's de facto boss, Suwat aims to steer his party into third place in the coming general election and thus into a kingmaker role.
Too much should not be made of it, but by appearances it would seem that Noda was not the first choice of the DPJ kingmaker Ozawa Ichiro.
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