There's also the Seattle election a few years ago, where an incumbent city council member declared victory on "election night" -- and then gave a gracious concession speech a couple of weeks later.
That may be more apropos: as you may know, Washington elections ate done entirely by mail. Election night is the deadline for mailing ballots, and when they start counting. It turns out that the first ballots received address not statistically representative, and the challenger's supporters averaged noticeably younger than the incumbents's.
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Date: 2017-05-11 10:45 pm (UTC)There's also the Seattle election a few years ago, where an incumbent city council member declared victory on "election night" -- and then gave a gracious concession speech a couple of weeks later.
That may be more apropos: as you may know, Washington elections ate done entirely by mail. Election night is the deadline for mailing ballots, and when they start counting. It turns out that the first ballots received address not statistically representative, and the challenger's supporters averaged noticeably younger than the incumbents's.