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COOP. Now let me tell you about what happened when George Washington was running for the House of

Burgesses in Virginia in the colonial period.

1757.

George Washington purchased 46 gallons of beer, one hog set, one barrel, and 10 bowls of rum punch.

35 gallons of wine, 2 gallons of cider,

and 3.5 pints of branding.

This is something that he would do

treating his neighbors at the time of the election and they would then

he hoped reciprocate by casting their vote for him.

Now, the people.

Now, the people would gather out at an election hearing risk tool.

They'd have fiddling, they might have a wrestling,

they might have a little bit of dancing.

And they very likely will have been eating barbecue, yelling, shouting, and I'm sure after they've consumed copious quantities of beer and rum and wine and cider and brandy,

who knows what else they would have done, but they probably loosened up quite a bit.

The traditional ritual was that each candidate stood on the platform and they awaited each voter to come up and announce

for whom they would vote.

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