During the heyday of the 1990s tech boom, Quattrone was the kingmaker.
Mr Tyhypko, who once posed for the cover of a men's health magazine, could be the kingmaker in the second round.
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.
His barely concealed ambition, to be not merely the richest man in Russian business but also the kingmaker, may yet be realised.
Virginia is one of the states deemed too close to call, and this year it looks poised to be the kingmaker because of the way the other swing states will split.
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To the degree that South Carolina has become the kingmaker in the Republican Party and the winner of the South Carolina primary in every contested quadrennium since 1980 has become the Republican nominee for president without exception - hasn't always been elected president, but has always won the nomination.
That made Berlusconi the coalition kingmaker at a time when the nation is counting on action to create jobs and enact political reform.
He was the headline-grabber, the deal breaker and certified kingmaker of the coalition.
But as Lidsky argues, Leno has never been the kind of kingmaker (or breaker) that Carson was, and he lacks the kind of monolithic power that Carson had to inspire both admiration and fear.
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Plainly, barring a wholly unexpected upset, Mr Lieberman will be kingmaker after the vote.
And in this vacuum, one of the most popular public figures is not a politician but Arkady Gaydamak, a populist billionaire who spreads his money around like water and unashamedly proclaims his desire to be a kingmaker behind the scenes.
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Equipped with ample political connections and control of the airwaves through his group's powerful TV Globo network, Marinho, now 95, gained a reputation in the 1980s as a kingmaker for selecting one Brazilian presidential candidate and influencing more than one election.
The retirement of former PM and LDP kingmaker Takeshita Noboru, 76, is widely regarded as heralding a generational change in the hidebound party.
Takeshita was his successor as Japan's unofficial "kingmaker" in the 1990s.
He was a young politician who couldn't win a congressional seat in his own neighborhood, and yet he was asking the state's political kingmaker to back him for a statewide race.
Lieberman stayed with the Democrats, but for a while anyway, he was seen as the most important lawmaker, or kingmaker, in Washington.
As de Gaulle's man, Mr Foccart became the African leaders' protector and kingmaker, deciding when France should intervene to prop up an ally and when it should allow a coup to remove a recalcitrant ruler.
If his critics are correct, and he is just too liberal to be elected pope, he does have enough influence to be a grande elletore - a kingmaker whose views could sway the conclave.
Is the hope now that California will become a kingmaker in a way it hasn't been?
Yet as kingmaker Mr Dacic dropped his alliance with the Democratic Party of Boris Tadic in favour of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) led by Tomislav Nikolic, who defeated Mr Tadic in the presidential election.
He adds that Microsoft can play kingmaker here, given its pivotal role as the provider of search services on the site.
But come the general election union members will still make fine get-out-the-vote foot soldiers for whoever wins the Democratic nomination, even if union bosses can no longer play kingmaker.
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.
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.
Moreover, even as kingmaker, it is not at all clear that Mr King could bring about the change he seeks.
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.
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