Remember November, along with the painting Terror in November, was created in response to the disputed 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The extremely tight race in Florida led to a recount in that state, which was stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. This resulted in the vote being settled in Bush's favor by a margin of 537 votes, and enabled him to win the electoral college. The election, one of the closest in US history, was the fourth of five presidential elections, and the first since 1988, in which the president lost the popular vote.
The nine in the painting aligns the month of November with its position as the ninth month in the ten-month Roman calendar. The artist referenced the Roman calendar in three other works from 2000, Celebrate September, October Is in the Wind, and Terror in November.