"While they're at it, can they find out who really killed Nicole Brown Simpson?" asked Allen Raymond, the author of the book How to Rig an Election and a three-month veteran of federal prison for his role in the 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone-jamming scandal.
This suggests that the BES survey did a better job than all the pre-election phone and online polls of building a genuinely representative sample.
In March, Trump defied his own advisers by congratulating Putin during a post-election phone call, then surprised them again by inviting Putin to Washington for a summit meeting.
The McMaster side believed Kelly was responsible for Trump's final turn against him in the days after the Tillerson firing, claiming Kelly unfairly blamed the national-security adviser for the damaging leak of talking points for Trump that warned him, "DO NOT CONGRATULATE" Russian President Vladimir Putin in a post-election phone call.
Trump revealed that he had received a post-election phone call from Cook during which he said, "Tim, you know one of the things that will be a real achievement for me is when I get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States".
Moon formally affirmed his commitment to the alliance with America in a post-election phone call with Donald Trump, but the former may be less enamored of his nation's long relationship with Washington than he admits.
A few days after the column appeared, Daniel DeFrancesco, executive director of the city's Board of Elections, phoned to say that one of the applications had been found.
As a general rule, the election night phone call is something of a social prop, a symbolic end point — or in some cases a physical spectacle.
A few days after the election, the phone rang and on the other end was the unmistakable bray of former Mayor Edward I. Koch.
