But he was "putting in place a strategy for us to win the election regardless".
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How many electoral votes does a candidate need to receive to win the election?
If those numbers hold, it will be very hard for Romney to win the election.
Growth of 3.8% in 2000 was not enough to win the election for Al Gore.
Mr McCain needs to attract roughly 55% of independents and 15% of Democrats to win the election.
But she still does not look popular enough to win the election due in about a year.
It had been no secret that many wanted Obama to win the election.
Megawati's "cool" may have been a good political strategy to win the election.
But even more voters think Gore would say anything to win the election.
If the conservatives can avoid too many split offs, they are likely to win the election albeit the current domestic security crisis.
He won the nomination, but will be lucky to win the election.
Chris Patten helped to win the election for the Tories, but lost his own seat in Bath to the Liberal Democrats in the process.
Though his ruling Kadima party is expected to win the election, it had been slipping in the polls in the weeks before the siege.
If Mr Toledo were to win the election, he would face the tricky political task of trying to govern with only 29 seats in the 120-seat Congress.
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If Mr Blair is to win the election that he can call any time between now and May 2002, he will have to shift opinion back towards confidence.
"And surprise surprise I suggested that I didn't think that we would be able to win the election by relying on our heartland support alone, " he told the BBC.
The West should also give clear backing to Ibrahim Rugova, the moderate president of Kosovo's (unrecognised) republic, who still looks set to win the election due on March 22nd.
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We're just going to see if this works. (Laughter.) Now, that may be a plan to win the election, but that's not a plan to create jobs.
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Due to the popularity of her opponent for the presidency, Ricardo Martinelli, Herrera may be forced to forge some kind of alliance with him in order to win the election.
Mr Bush told Friday's New York Times that he would withdraw American troops if asked but that the political leaders likely to win the election understood the need to keep them for now.
Kerry called Bush Wednesday morning to concede defeat after initially holding out hope that uncounted provisional ballots could give him an edge in Ohio, which would have given him the electoral votes needed to win the election.
Rather than sitting on his lead, and counting on Mr. Romney to lose the election, Mr. Obama needs to be driving ahead to take positive steps to win the election, with a forceful and positive vision of the future.
They came a poor third in Bradford and were meant to be looking to increase their vote in order to try to win the 2015 election having failed to win the 2010 one.
The situation now is, in a way, the reverse: David Cameron, the current Tory leader and odds-on favourite to win the next election, has agreed to the debate, as has Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Some Tory strategists are quite open in saying that the party is unlikely to win the next election without the 20-boundary change seats.
Mr. Obama ran hard to the center on economic issues to win the general election.
It has not gone unnoticed that as winter draws near, the colder states which rely on cheap heating oil, like Michigan and Ohio, are either battleground states or Democratic states in the north-east which Mr Gore needs to win in the election.
However, the index pared gains after Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras, whose party is expected to win the Greek election, said he could still seek to make modifications to the country's bailout agreement if elected.
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