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« on: September 01, 2020, 10:15:31 PM »

^Thanks for this excellent summary.

re: the OP's question, they obviously got very lucky with GA/NH/NJ in 1992 (shouldn’t have been called at poll closing time) and TN and arguably even KY in 1996. They didn’t get as lucky with some of the Senate races, e.g. NH-SEN 1996 (projected for Swett [D] instead of Smith [R]) and GA-SEN 1992 (projected for Fowler [D] even though Coverdell [R] would later win the runoff).

I also stumbled upon this (Wikipedia article on the 1992 FL election):

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Florida held an election for president of the United States on November 3, 1992. The race was extremely close – so close in fact that some news networks mistakenly reported that Democratic challenger Bill Clinton had won in the state, although incumbent President George H. W. Bush was eventually declared the winner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida

There doesn’t seem to be any evidence for this, though, and given what would happen eight years later, I think someone at least would have brought it up if this really happened.
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