If not for an election upset in Westchester County, the ratification process for the United States Constitution might have gone quite differently. Delegates met at a convention in Poughkeepsie in 1788 to decide whether or not to ratify the Constitution--- ultimately they decided in favor of ratification in a very close vote. If so important a state as NY had decided otherwise, the whole process could have unraveled at a national level. An election upset in Westchester County appears to have made the difference.
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