razor-thin victory

One of those, the California Assembly, could slip into Republican hands after a recount of one race in which the Democrat has claimed a razor-thin victory.

Also last night, a Democrat who won a razor-thin victory four years ago, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, cruised to re-election last night.

Johnson rankled the Kennedys by claiming credit for winning margins in Texas and other Southern states that provided the razor-thin Democratic victory in 1960.

The moves reflect the turmoil that has beset the Dole campaign since the onetime presumptive nominee eked out a razor-thin victory in Iowa.

His antiwar stance has been particularly popular among eastern Germans, helping to lift him to a razor-thin victory against a conservative challenger last fall.

However, in a razor-thin primary victory, Derickson won the Republican nomination by 54 votes.

Two weeks ago, the briefing room had been a hostile place, full of questions and strained answers about Presidential haircuts, travel office dismissals and razor-thin victories in the House.

Svinhufvud's razor-thin victory required Niukkanen's arm-twisting tactics, whereby he pressured all the Agrarian presidential electors to support Svinhufvud.

Yet we have seen recently that razor-thin victories in an evenly divided electorate can also produce tyrannical tendencies and big trouble.

They form the bedrock of his party, and their turnout was crucial in his razor-thin victory over the conservative opposition last fall.