And in terms of the 2010 elections, two-to-one preference for Democrats right now among the voters.
Opinion polls indicate that it is likely to win by better than two-to-one on election day.
In the 2009 governor's race Mr McDonnell won Virginia Beach by an almost two-to-one margin.
In Scotland, polls several months before the vote showed a two-to-one majority in favour of devolution.
John McCain of Arizona is greater than two-to-one, while Gore has better than a four-to-one advantage over Bill Bradley.
Even the new proposed high-speed line in Britain has been shown to yield a benefit-cost ratio of around two-to-one.
And so that two-to-one advantage in registration that you had is maybe a little less now than it was?
By a nearly two-to-one margin, 49 economists recently surveyed by WSJ.com said the worst of the housing bust is over.
Obamacare is so bad that Ohio voters last year voted by a two-to-one margin to exempt themselves from its mandates.
If the Lebanese are, by the rough tally of crowd sizes, two-to-one in favour of change, the media greatly amplify this advantage.
Even that contribution is dependent on being matched two-to-one by other countries.
Court of Appeals agreed to postpone the law and it ruled last week two-to-one to make EPA go back to the drawing board.
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Other inverse leveraged options include the ProShares UltraShort Financials ETF (NYSE: SKF), which is leveraged two-to-one, rather than three-to-one like the Direxion fund.
To stand any chance of winning, Mrs Clinton will have to wallop him in New York city by a margin of around two-to-one.
And in the New York governor's race Carl Paladino, a political novice backed by tea-partiers, trounced Rick Lazio by two-to-one in the Republican primary.
"I would be pleased with a two-to-one ratio, " said Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, professor of child development at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.
At their annual meeting on January 16th, after Forbes went to press, Ocean Spray growers voted two-to-one not to explore a sale of the company.
And it persuaded the business community either to abstain or to tilt Democratic, so that even the left-leaning Barbara Boxer could outspend Matt Fong two-to-one.
The advantage of diversification is still achieved, and a two-to-one leveraged ETF will double the performance of the index while still avoiding the risk in the individual stocks.
The ratio is closer to three-to-one in the NBA and barely above two-to-one in the NFL, which equally shares a strong national TV bounty among all 32 clubs.
Assuming this trade was a ratio spread, the trader might have sold 58, 000 October 4 puts, thus creating a two-to-one ratio with the purchased 29, 000 October 5 puts.
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After the longest and costliest election in U.S. history, Barack Obama won a landslide, defeating his Republican opponent, John McCain, in the Electoral College by a ratio of two-to-one.
New Yorkers rejected it this week by a two-to-one margin, but the idea is gathering support elsewhere as a possible cure for political ailments ranging from voter apathy to partisanship.
According to music retailer HMV, the album is outselling the current number one, Westlife's Face to Face, by a margin of two-to-one and looks set to top the chart on Sunday.
Whereas only a decade ago public-opinion polls showed Americans opposing gay marriage by a two-to-one margin, new polls show that slightly more than half of Americans are in favor of it.
Democrats have a two-to-one lead in registration in Pittsburgh.
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"Those banners outperformed the other ones two-to-one, " he said.
As the county grew, Republicans maintained a two-to-one advantage.
In 2008, Obama carried voters who did not believe they could achieve the American Dream by two-to-one, lost to John McCain those who did believe in the dream and still won the election.
On Wednesday night, they survived a three-overtime marathon in Game 3 to beat Washington and take a two-games-to-one series lead, but for most of Saturday, the Capitals seemed the fresher, more desperate team.
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