And then quickly, quickly, inside their offices,

紧接着很快很快在他们的办公室里
they realized that there were nineteen electoral votes

他们意识到在三个存在争议的州里
in the three disputed states,and they said,

有了19张有争议的选举人票他们说
"No news conferences, we're going to win those three."

"不开发布会了我们将赢得那三州"
How? Well that remains to be seen.

怎样呢我们拭目以待吧
The disputed election of 1876 was disputed over the three states,

1876年那场大选在南部三州有争议
that still had Republican regimes, that had widespread fraud,

三个州一直被共和党控制并在选举中
violence and intimidation practice in their elections.

存在大量欺诈暴力以及恐吓事件
No one will ever know, as long as we live, exactly who won where,

没人知道如果我们活着情况到底怎样
although we do have some good guesses now from scholarship.

虽然我们在学术角度上有许多合理的猜测
But what ensued was the longest disputed election we've ever had.

众所周知后来出现了史上最有争议的大选
The Gore/Bush affair of 2000 lasted, what, thirty-five days

之后2000年大选的戈尔布什之争