I wasn't "rounding down" in terms of months. To me, "a couple of years" can mean "two or three," which it was--more than two, less than three. I was conveying that she had only one incomplete term as a governor.
and why try to pretend that she doesn't have 20 years in politics and many years in elected offices, being first elected in 1992?
I wasn't "pretending" anything. To me, when you're talking about running for president, it is winning elections at the state and national levels that is most significant.
You can call it 32 months or round it up to 3 years, calling it 2 years is dishonest, so was pretending she doesn’t have more than 20 years in politics and many years in elective office and on the national scene as leader of the conservative movement and the most powerful endorsement in history, and the individual who has more shaped the Congress and Senate, and Governor ships in her own image than any other political figure in American history.
Couple = 2, a pair and you knew that.