Bush maintained a lead of 120,000 - 140,000 votes in Florida until around 90% counted, then the 4 big rat counties unleashed the dimple chads.
Oh and don't forget the double punched ballots. I seems the Republican votes are added up right away and counted. The Dem votes always take a lot longer to come in because those precincts have a lot of manipulating to do before sending out there counts.