On the eve of the election in November of 1916, Woodrow Wilson gathered with a few friends and relatives, seven in all, at Shadow Lawn to await the election returns. A special ticker tape had been installed so that he could keep abreast of the returns, but for the most part Wilson showed little interest in it. He engaged in several enthusiastic games of "Twenty Questions." His daughter could hardly stand it and slipped off whenever she could to find out the news. The news was bad. Hughes was winning by a landslide in all of the states along the Atlantic seaboard.