1.   How he fares in the SEC will determine if this early projection holds.

2.   If projections hold, the current La Nina will lack the strength of the El Nino that is just ending, the most powerful on record.

3.   If rainfall projections hold true, officials say, most of West and South Texas will experience a moderate to extreme drought as early as next month.

4.   Indeed, if current population projections hold, it will take no net savings to maintain a constant amount of capital per worker.

5.   This official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, maintained that if those projections hold, the result would be worse for Gingrich than for Clinton.

6.   Those projections still hold, Lieser said.

7.   If census projections hold, Republicans may benefit more than Democrats, analysts predicted.