1.   After Thursday, a new maxim ought to state that governments do not win elections, oppositions lose them.

2.   The government has won a very important victory.

3.   The new government won a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha in mid-July.

4.   A HUGE Tory row today broke out after the government won the crucial Maastricht debate by just three votes.

5.   An antitrust case might be harder for the government to win because the Justice Department would have to show that Microsoft was harming competition through its marketing strategy.

6.   And many of them are not prepared to believe that the government could win in a fair election.

7.   Any government must win a majority in both houses.

8.   As a formality, the president must approve of a list of cabinet members before the government must win a vote of confidence in parliament.

9.   As such, it is not a final or complete list of what could occur if the government wins.

10.   Assume for a moment that the government wins its antitrust case against Microsoft.