The overvotes, according to the consortium's own numbers, would have yielded a hair-breadth victory for Gore.
His hair's-breadth victory in Tuesday's Commons vote on university tuition fees took place despite having watered down his (sensible) proposal, and despite his party having one of the biggest Commons majorities in history.
President Chen Shui-bian's hair-breadth victory in a disputed election seems likely to deepen political and ethnic tensions among the Taiwanese people, political experts say, and may increase the chances of a future confrontation with mainland China.
The all-important battle for supremacy in the Electoral Ccollege came down to Florida, and early this morning, Gov. Jeb Bush seemed to have delivered a hair's-breadth victory to his brother in that fast-growing state, putting him over the top.
But, whatever takes place going forward, the breadth of his victory in New Hampshire was impressive.
Yet beyond this "no complacency" message, Labour officials are truly delighted by the geographical breadth of the victory.
Trump also had a point about the breadth of his victory, if one that he pushed too far.
The reason for this dodge is that if conservatives ever had to acknowledge the breadth of their victory, they'd have no one to blame for its worsening consequences but themselves.
