The President is smart enough to read the election returns.

Official election returns are expected to be announced next week.

A look at the election returns suggests a very different conclusion.

He attracted a great deal of support, and seemed to be doing quite well as the first election returns came in.

"Maybe you didn't read the election returns," he told the crowd.

For those who hoped that the President would move to the middle in response to the election returns, the speech was a success.

That money becomes a kind of early election return.

An amateur could tell this from a glance at election returns.

Of course, today's election returns are followed in the family room or bedroom, around the flat screen.

He has read the election returns and is reacting like any other politician.

"Once the election returns were in, this became the obvious way to go," one Democratic aide said.

In so doing, the marchers were asking the Court not to follow the election returns.

The Board was empowered to examine election returns and rule on the results.

It is no coincidence that the resignation took place "under cover of the election returns."

But no Justice appeared willing to engage in a discussion of the election returns, and the argument moved on to other issues.

This column would almost rather spend an afternoon analyzing yesterday's election returns.

But they deferred their discussion when early election returns showed a close contest in several large states.

Its present political space is defined by the round-table agreement, not the election returns.

The election returns produced a confusing picture of gains and losses.

In South Korea, the nation's top court says it does not follow the election returns.

From there, the data was downloaded to another computer system, which adds up the numbers to produce election returns.

Should they want election returns, he said, they may call a member of his staff for updates.

Slow election returns left Indonesia in suspense today about the shape of its political future.

As the election returns crept in, sporadic violence broke out around Iraq.

See also Los Angeles municipal election returns, 1951 and after.