The poet's use of quotation marks and dramatic shift in word choice in this excerpt from "Attack the Water" suggest that these words are coming from another source, such as the news.
This accounts for the change in word choice, as the news, would have been written or spoken by someone else. Also, adding this to the poem helps describe the situation in Vietnam from an outside standpoint.
Electoral college votes. A recent example of this is the 2016 US election, where Clinton won the popular vote, while Trump won the electoral college votes by a landslide. Since electoral college votes are what really count, Trump won.
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Circe is jealous that Odysseus is leaving her for a mortal and would rather keep him stuck on the island out of spite.