Major impact of an election upset in Westch County in 1788

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.