Without Florida, Mr. Bush has a hard time gathering enough electoral votes to put him over the top.
Still, people going to the typically routine electoral gatherings have been drawn into the rough and tumble of campaign-season politics.
Mr. Trump won 30 states, gathering 306 of 538 electoral votes.
He shot me a knowing look and responded, "You know - it's only 12 days before the election," thereby unsubtly and ironically reminding the Muslims present at the gathering about the detrimental electoral "taint" of being associated with our kind.
Politically, one of his finest moments came in the Dromore council by-election in February 2008 when his party made its electoral debut, gathering 739 votes and effectively depriving the DUP of the seat.
Paul Nuttall, the Ukip deputy leader, says an "electoral storm cloud" is gathering over Westminster.
The electoral crisis had been gathering momentum since Alejandro Toledo, the opposition candidate, dropped out of the race last Thursday, saying he would not compete in a fraudulent election.
It argues that the unusual longevity of communist regimes allows us to develop and test a theory of the emergence, evolution, and eventual demise of non-electoral institutions for information gathering in autocracies.
In the Roman system of direct democracy, two primary types of gatherings were used to vote on legislative, electoral, and judicial matters.
If that is not to happen next year in Zimbabwe, independent electoral monitoring organisations need to start gathering information now on all aspects of the election: the voters' roll, intimidation, the use of government funds and facilities, and so on.
