Early leads can be misleading due to the order in which different types of ballots are processed and counted in each state.

The phrase describes the relatively recent phenomenon of a seemingly strong ... hence the ‘red mirage’. Democrats are more likely to vote by mail, for example, and those votes are often ...

Due to increased mail-in voting during the ... drawing premature conclusions about the election outcome. The "red mirage" phenomenon refers to early returns skewed in favor of Republican ...

UTO, Kumamoto Prefecture--A high school science club here enlisted the help of local fishermen to reproduce a rare type of atmospheric optical phenomenon ... as the mirage is called, as it had ...