Margarette Leach
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Margarette Leach
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Margarette Faye Riggins Leach was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia, best known for being a faithless elector during the 1988 United States presidential election. She pledged to vote for Michael Dukakis for President of the United States and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President of the United States. However, she cast her vote for Bentsen as President and Dukakis as Vice President as a form of protest against the electoral college's winner-take-all system. Leach was later a seven-t
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American politician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarette_Leach
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2023-06-26T22:01:25Z
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