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We'd like to get right into it and what we're gonna get into today is a history lesson

We're going to look at what Benny Thompson did on January 6th

January 6th

2005 Benny Thompson, of course being the Democratic chairman of the House January 6th Committee

So to look into this you got to go back in time and you've got to go back to the 2004

presidential election it was a it was a close one George W. Bush was the Republican incumbent president and he won

Re-election over the Democrat Senator John Kerry and Bush won Re-election with 286

Electoral votes to carries

251 now if you're out there adding things up there

They're supposed to add up to 538 and they don't that's because in the move that was never really explained

There was one so-called Faithless elector in the 2000 before racing the faith faithless elector voted for John Edwards

The Democratic Senator who was Kerry's running mate. So anyway

Bush wins 286 to 251 in this one wacko elector voting for John Edwards now

Election day was November the second

2004 vote counting goes into the night and in the early morning of November the third and it all came down

To one state Ohio Ohio had 20 electoral votes if Ohio went for Bush

Bush would win a second term if Ohio went for Kerry Kerry would become president

Ohio was the decisive state now if you weren't around or you weren't following at the time the early exit polls that day

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