While the nation was glued to the election returns, life went on and news happened elsewhere.
Best of all, however, Mr Bush studied the election returns from his losing race as an accident expert might examine the details of a aeroplane crash.
Measured by the ratio of whites to blacks, the ratio of city to rural folk and past election returns, Missouri is a microcosm of the nation that surrounds it.
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The most important determinant of that question may lie with the X-factor in this year's election returns: How will Democrats who successfully ran in what have traditionally been relatively conservative Republican districts conduct themselves?
In Peru this week, the gathering of presidential election returns (long delays in getting ballots from the polling places to the counting house, for example) has created a widespread suspicion that Fujimori has put in the executive fix against his opponent, Alejandro Toledo.
Gore, in an unexpected move that was said to have miffed the Texas governor, called Bush in the early hours of November 8 to retract an earlier concession, after aides insisted that election returns in Florida remained fluid, and he may yet have won the state, and with it, the presidency.
Some believe that the results of the election affect stock market returns.
The difference in returns through 11 election cycles is quite remarkable.
Hours after watching the returns come in on election night, Christopher was in Los Angeles--getting ready for bed--when the phone rang, and Gore campaign chairman Bill Daley dispatched him to Florida.
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Sure enough, using standard deviation of the returns, the day after Election Day is significantly more volatile than a normal day by about 80% (1.99% vs. 1.14%).
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Granted, Bush and Gore will make it a tough contest and a close election, but -- based on returns in Reaganland -- the Republicans' anointed candidate appears to be the wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong place.
Congress returns tomorrow for a short, pre-midterm election session, and with the political season starting in earnest, the mood on Capital Hill is becoming more partisan.
According to published returns, the Front candidate, Ion Iliescu, won the presidential election and his forces gained large majorities in both houses of parliament.
After voting ended Monday--with a healthy turnout of about 84%--projections and returns swung like a pendulum between the two sides, and without the vote from abroad, the election's outcome was still far from clear.
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However, the Obama re-election team often points to Romney's father, the late George Romney, who released 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in 1968.
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