[FairOpinion]

"Poor Tom. He'll be crying in his beer in another hour. "

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I think you are wrong. In an hour he will declare himself governor, because "if the plurality of the people would have voted for him, as their conscience were telling them, he would be governor". Just watch his speech. ;)

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Thye spaceship is coming to take him to his inauguration, heheh.