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November 5 is the day after the election. The last time the Republicans have lost a Presidential election which fell on November 4 was in 1884, and voter fraud in New York City may have cost them that election (the margin was only 1,000 votes or so, and that tipped the electoral vote majority to Grover Cleveland).