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** Not quite true. This their original intent, but as time wound down, they found that storyboarding, writing, and animating both possibilities and have it play coherently was too much of a pain, so they said, "to hell with this," and animated the episode shown, {{spoiler|before Obama's victory speech was delivered. The plan was to include the victor's own speech, but the animation had to be made before they knew its content, so they came up with plausible filler text. Even they were surprised to find how closely their filler matched up with what was actually said.}}
* Reportedly, General [[Dwight Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] found a note in his jacket pocket late in 1944 which was the speech he had written regarding the failure of Operation Overlord (i.e. the Normandy Invasion).
* The November 5, 1996 (US election day) ''[[New York Times]]'' crossword puzzle had two seven-letter words with the clue "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!)" - which could be answered with ''either'' "CLINTON ELECTED" or "BOBDOLE ELECTED." The seven down words crossing the first word worked with either set of letters; for example, the clue for the word crossing the first letter was "Black Halloween animal," which could be either BAT or CAT. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130826220944/http://barelybad.com/xwdthemes_110596.htm More details.]
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