* is a literary device to signify an asshole, an anus, where the sun doesn't shine etc. which was used by Kurt Vonnegut or Philip K. Dick. BTW, welcome to DU:hi:
• One is that it's like a sports statistic that is in dispute
• The other is that it stems from the dissenting opinion in Bush v. Gore, in which one of the justices said that Bush would have an asterisk next to his name in the history book because the validity of his election was questionable.
I think the second explanation is correct. Try googling "Bush asterisk".
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