But McDonald - who tracks how many early votes have been cast and, when possible, by which political party - says that it may be possible to determine the eventual winner by watching hotly-contested swing states.
Professor Paul Whiteley of the University of Sheffield calculates that the 17% by-election swing from Labour to Liberal Democrat would be enough, if repeated in May, for the Liberal Democrats to seize Sheffield.
This far in, it's obvious what to expect: pickin'-party songs, bar-band basics enlivened by loose, easygoing solos that traverse Western swing and Stardust-era Willie Nelson.
While LOST proponents argue that the United States will choose available arbitration mechanisms to avoid legal decisions from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), such arbitration panels are no-less perilous for U.S. interests as the decisive, "swing" arbiters would be appointed by generally unfriendly UN-affiliated bureaucrats.
McIlroy aims to get back in the swing -- and respond to the gauntlet thrown down by Woods at the Houston Open, where he could return to the No. 1 ranking with victory.
But some DPJ members are unabashed Japanese neocons: pro-defense and pro-U.S. What's more, both parties are working to amend the pacifist Article 9 of the constitution--a move supported by 56% of respondents in a recent poll--which implies the rightward swing in defense policy will outlast Koizumi's (currently rocky) reign.
"From the Harlem Renaissance to ... jazz and swing, so much of that was started by African-Americans, " she said.
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There is the result of the February 27th Wirral South by-election where Labour achieved a swing of 17% on a high turnout of 73%.
And in an election year Barack Obama is unlikely to risk the wrath of corn-growing swing states such as Ohio, Michigan and Iowa by doing anything that will hit prices.
The Lib Dems won an improbable by-election victory, with a 20% swing putting David Bellotti in the House of Commons.
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By mid-summer, demand destruction was in full swing, with shifts to public transportation, carpooling, and telecommuting.
Like many things driven by human nature, venture-backed biotech boardrooms often swing between the emotions of fear and greed.
Taking the Buttrills council ward in Barry in a by-election from Labour with a 12 per cent swing earlier this month has given them some heart that they're on the right track.
When Bell and Prior brought up their 100 partnership from the first ball of the 16th over, England were cruising, but they got an unwelcome jolt from the gentler pace offered by Kallis's swing bowling and Johan Botha's off-spinners.
We liked to be thrown about by a roller coaster, slide, or swing, in a rough sea, on a trampoline, or by grown-ups who in moving us at their force and speed gave us a taste of the dimensions of adult life.
The hundreds of Democratic field offices outnumbered GOP outposts by greater than 2-1 or 3-1 in key swing states.
By the time the battle between Red and Green reaches full-swing, it might not be so easy to call a winner.
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Instead Gingrich stunned the pundits by a double-digit spread victory, close to a 30 point swing from January 9.
The more laid-back of the two lodges, aptly named Safari Lodge, consists of thatched-roof cottages nestled down in the African landscape, some accessed only by swing bridges.
Kerry, who followed his victory in Iowa with a win by 13 percentage points in New Hampshire, kicked off a seven-day swing through the states Wednesday with a rally in St.
By the first decade of the twenty-first century, I could no longer swing a golf club.
In Uxbridge, however, the by-election followed the death of a popular Tory, and there was a swing to the Conservatives of 5%.
Summer job-hunting season is in full swing on college campuses and last week one of my students came by looking for career advice.
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Most fans were quick to defend the fact Britney chose to lip-synch through the rest of the show, won over by her acrobatics - which included using two men suspended from the ceiling as a swing - while blindfolded.
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Warren White of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues were the first to find that sea-surface temperatures across the globe swing up and down in a 10-to 12-year period that lags behind the solar cycle by two to three years.
The film is being directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) and stars Ashton Kutcher as the turtleneck and jean-clad tech visionary.
The Labour candidate said his party had been "re-invigorated" by the campaign, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage predicted a "big" swing to his party.
Based on cumulative five-year returns, the US trailed Europe by seven percentage points at the end of 2010, but by the end of 2011 was 20 points ahead a 27- percentage point swing in just one year.
Finally, while in 2008 women dominated the electorate by 8-points (54-46), they were a much smaller share of swing voters than many pundits would have you believe.
The rule broken (13-2) states that "a player shall not improve the area of his intended stance or swing by any of the following actions: moving, bending or breaking anything growing or fixed".
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