support a particular countdown, but they bailed on that obligation and decided to vote for somebody else. when that happened, that was the largest number of electors to defect on a presidential ballot since 1872. in 1872, they had great reason to defect and switch their vote to somebody else instead of the presidential candidate they were bound to support, because in 1872 there was this guy horace greely and he up and died between the election and when the electoral college cast their votes. five days before the election his wife died. five days after that he lost the presidential election. then right after he lost the presidential election he lost his business, he lost his newspaper. then after that, dude just up and died before the electoral college even got a chance to meet and cast their ballots to formalize the results. of the 66 electors who were bound to vote for horace greely, 65 of the 66 bolted and voted for somebody else, which you can kind of understand.
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