It had been a very strange election night.
And 1964 was a strange election year, in the wake of Kennedy's assassination.
Whatever the truth, so far it has been a strange election season.
Sicily's image for unreconstructed machismo and sexual repression wasn't the only thing to take a drubbing in Sunday's strange election.
In another strange twist in this strange election, some of the troubles over absentee ballots were caused by the parties themselves.
"This will be a very interesting, very strange election in which we will be able to check the influences within the party," he said.
The day after a quarrelsome debate that capped five days of vigorous politicking in the reframed race, the spirit of Mr. Wellstone hung in the frigid air, his green signs, buttons and bumper stickers sticking out among the blue Coleman and red Mondale paraphernalia as a reminder of how this strange election had come to be.
"It's a strange election, very frustrating, profoundly undemocratic, because the big policy questions have been decided so we can't express our political will," said George Papanikolaou, a genetics lecturer, among a thin straggle of morning voters at a central Athens polling station.
As has been a pattern during this strange election year, long-anticipated highlights were again upstaged by historical new lows, and what remained to be seen was how much the country grasped the enormity of the disruption under way, and how much it cared.
Or maybe the Republican Senators are just waiting for President Trump, or Cruz, or the Congress that this strange election year or the next might bring in, or for more vacancies until the Court falls below its quorum of six, and nothing is decided.
