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This account uses official results to determine whether a "call was wrong". That means George W. Bush is recognized as having been elected in 2000, whatever my personal view about the legitimacy of that may be.

CBS's call of Ohio for Barack Obama in 2008.

Chuck Grassley won his third Senate term in 1992. He has since won five further Senate terms to date.

Bob Dole, the 1996 GOP nominee, won his fifth and final Senate term in 1992. In 1995 he would become Senate Majority Leader. He resigned both the Majority Leader position and the Senate seat to focus on his unsuccessful presidential run.

Bill Clinton won Missouri when the polls closed in 1992.

CNN's map of governor's mansions by party going into the 1990 midterm elections.

Tennessee last elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1990, when then-Sen. Al Gore was re-elected. He won this election with 68% of the vote and won all 95 of the state's counties.

Current Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was first elected to the House in the 2006 Democratic landslide, defeating moderate Republican Rep. Nancy Johnson. Johnson had held this seat since 1982. She even won an incumbent-vs-incumbent race in 2002 when she was drawn in with a Democrat.

State Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R) narrowly defeated Sen. Carol Mosely-Braun (D) in 1998, but became so unpopular that it was basically a foregone conclusion he would not be re-elected. He declined to run for re-election, paving the way for Barack Obama to win the seat in 2004.

1998 was the only time Republicans won the Class III Senate Seat in Colorado since 1968. (Campbell had won that seat as a Democrat in 1992).

John Spellman (R-WA) was the last Republican to be elected governor of Washington, in 1980. Washington has the longest streak of electing Democratic governors of any state.

The moment when CNN incorrectly called Florida for Gore in 2000 (which was of course a matter of dispute).

In one of many times that @HillaryClinton made history during her career, she became the first (and to date only) First Lady to be elected to public office when she defeated Rep. Rick Lazio (R) to be elected Senator from New York. This was called right when the polls closed.

Old clip of @AmyEWalter from the @CookPolitical report discussing early Senate returns in 2004. She was describing how it was amazing that Inez Tenenbaum (the Dem who was running to replace Hollings (D)) was able to keep it as close as she did. She lost to Jim DeMint (R).

Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) was re-elected to his Senate seat in 1982 by a "wide margin". Lol.

Parris Glendening (D) barely won the governorship of Maryland in 1994 against the far-right Ellen Sauerbrey.

Cokie Roberts presenting the House of Representatives results for ABC in 1992, with a digital model of the House chamber behind her.

Walter Mondale's 1972 victory for his U.S. Senate re-election was so large that he was declared the winner essentially when the polls closed:

Bernie Sanders's first run for the House in 1988 (coverage from CNN). This was actually remarkably close to the final result.

Evan Bayh (D) was elected governor in Indiana in 1988. He went on to be re-elected in 1992, and was elected to the Senate in 1998 and 2004. An attempt to regain his Senate seat in 2016 ended in failure - by then Indiana had moved even further to the right.

The Florida 3rd Congressional district was drawn in the 1990 round of redistricting to allow Black voters in North and Central Florida the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice. This was perhaps the most geographically dramatic permutation of this district.