61.   Patrick McGurn, vice president of Institutional Shareholder Services, an influential proxy advisory firm, said the families are still a formidable voting bloc.

62.   Penn said that gun control opponents traditionally have been a small but extremely motivated voting bloc.

63.   Political organizations see Internet users as a coveted voting bloc.

64.   Puerto Ricans, since all are born U.S. citizens, could easily become a bigger voting bloc.

65.   Reed has not only made the Christian Coalition a coolly efficient political network and arguably the voting bloc to which the Republican Party most owes its power.

66.   Research by Jelen suggested that gun control opponents were a more unified and active voting bloc than gun control supporters.

67.   Republican leaders acknowledged that they could not crack the voting bloc assembled by the sponsors.

68.   Recognition of this emerging voting bloc has in recent months stopped many politicians from openly advocating ideas like privatizing Social Security or cutting Medicare benefits.

69.   Republicans fear a statistically enhanced census would increase population figures for minorities, a traditionally strong Democratic voting bloc.

70.   Sensing sudden vulnerability in a reliable segment of their voting bloc, Democrats are launching a salvo of their own.