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FPTP was in the mid 1970s , when , following a perverse general election result in February 1974 ( the Conservatives had a lead of 0.7 % or 226,000 over Labour , but secured fewer seats , and the Liberals got only 2 % of the seats for 19 % of the vote ) , about a hundred Conservative MPs ( in step with the CBI resolution of 1977 ) pronounced themselves in favour of electoral reform , the enthusiasm of many of them fading away during the long period of Conservative power in 1980s . The Taco Bus ' engine is quite powerful , and soon they have gained a lead of many blocks on the Man in Black . In the House , the Democrats currently have a lead of 33 seats with six elections still undecided . Microsoft has had its Xbox 360 on store shelves for more than a year and already has a lead of several million customers . If the two of us set off from two different points at the same time and you have a lead of one hundred paces over me and you move at a rate of sixty paces per minute , and I at only thirty paces per minute , then after one hour the distance which separates us will not be just over one hundred paces , but just over one thousand nine hundred paces . Gore was to carry the Beaver State , which votes by mail and was slow to count , but it did n't matter - - the Sunshine State was the decisive one , and Bush had a lead of just under 2,000 votes , enough to force an automatic recount . Kerry had a lead of almost 10 % among women , another core group of Democratic supporters . The United States will have a lead of at least a decade over the XFEL in Germany , if not longer . At the village of Kwethluk , the final checkpoint before the finish , Buser had a lead of only 12 minutes on the defending Kusko champ , who last year posted the fastest time in the race 's history . In the second set , Laval came out firing and had a lead of 8-6 at the first break and a lead at the second . The 360 has a six million unit head start and , on the basis of figures from both companies , will still have a lead of about four million by March next year . MERCY RULE – If a team is 20 points ahead when the official announces the two minute warning in the second half , or any time inside two minutes a team gains a lead of 20 points , the game shall be over . Nov. 14 : With full machine recount and Volusia County 's hand count completed , Bush has a lead of 300 votes on this deadline day . Mr. Kaltenborn was saying , " While the President has a lead of two million votes , it is certainly necessary that this election shall go into the House of Representatives . So in Ohio , for instance , the first report fell with a margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points , meaning a candidate would have to have a lead of more than 10 points to have a statistically significant lead . Ballots are still being counted , but with fewer than one thousand votes left to be tallied , Toussaint has a lead of around 2-tho ....