I remember 1970 when Jim Buckley was elected senator from New York on the Conservative Party line alone. Charles Goodell, the father of the current NFL commissioner, had the Republican and Liberal lines, and Richard Ottinger was the Democrat.
I said in August that Buckley would win.
On Election Night, they kept going back to House races or already decided governor’s races and the longer they avoided to report the New York Senate race, the more certain I was that Buckley had won. I even said so. “If not, they would have called it by now.”
Eventually, they had to call it, and boy. were they upset. But it was long past when they should have called it.
Meanwhile, states like TX and KS were delayed for awhile, and you may recall it took them forever to call Georgia.