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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning — WASHINGTON — The battle over Monday's Electoral College vote is the beginning, not the end. A larger campaign to undermine the legitimacy — and constitutionality — of Donald Trump's presidency is likely just getting underway.
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Michael Moore / Facebook:
A Personal Appeal to the Republican Members of the Electoral College from Michael Moore — Dear Republican Electors: — Ok, if you've read this far, knowing that it's me, Michael Moore, writing to you -\-\ well, thank you for having an open mind and the willingness to listen to someone you don't agree with.
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Plurality Wants Popular Vote Over Electoral College
Plurality Wants Popular Vote Over Electoral College
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The Hill, Politicus USA and Hot Air
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Voters show little support for Electoral College revolt
Voters show little support for Electoral College revolt
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The Week, New York Times and The Daily Caller
The Portland Press Herald:
Maine Electoral College elector says he will cast his ballot for Sanders
Maine Electoral College elector says he will cast his ballot for Sanders
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Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog
David Caplan / ABC News:
Michael Moore Appeals to GOP Electors: Go Rogue and I Will Pay Your State Fine
Michael Moore Appeals to GOP Electors: Go Rogue and I Will Pay Your State Fine
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Hit & Run, Los Angeles Times, Political Wire, abc11.com and Associated Press
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
The electoral college is poised to pick Trump, despite push to dump him
The electoral college is poised to pick Trump, despite push to dump him
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump
Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump
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AOL, The Geller Report, BizPac Review, Raw Story and The Hill
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’ — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans.
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Scott Detrow / NPR:
To Rehabilitate Democratic Party, Obama Plans To ‘Coach’ Young Talent — President Obama sees a role for himself in rebuilding the Democratic Party after he leaves office — coach. — “What I am interested in is just developing a whole new generation of talent,” Obama told NPR's Steve Inskeep …
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Allen Cone / UPI:
Obama warns Trump not to overuse executive orders — With about one month to go before he leaves office, President Barack Obama gave some exit interview-type advice to his successor Donald Trump: Don't rely too heavily on executive orders. — In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep …
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Washington Free Beacon
Buck Ryan / Lexington Herald-Leader:
UK prof: Singing a Beach Boys' tune got me punished for ‘sexual misconduct’ — The University of Kentucky has punished me in a “sexual misconduct” case, in part, for singing a Beach Boys tune covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks. — Under Administrative Regulation 6:1, Discrimination and Harassment …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Title IX is ‘bureaucratic sex creep’ gone wild: Glenn Reynolds
Title IX is ‘bureaucratic sex creep’ gone wild: Glenn Reynolds
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Hit & Run and Instapundit
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Republics End — Many people are reacting to the rise of Trumpism and nativist movements in Europe by reading history — specifically, the history of the 1930s. And they are right to do so. It takes willful blindness not to see the parallels between the rise of fascism and our current political nightmare.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Trump knows how to get ‘angry, white men to vote for him’ — President-elect Donald Trump “doesn't know much,” former President Bill Clinton told a local newspaper earlier this month, but “one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
All This Talk of Voter Fraud? Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None — After all the allegations of rampant voter fraud and claims that millions had voted illegally, the people who supervised the general election last month in states around the nation have been adding up how many credible reports of fraud they actually received.
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Terrifying Aftermath of Hillary's Election Victory — In the midst of our joyous celebrations, and as we savor the delicious schadenfreude left in the wake of Hillary's humiliating rejection by normal Americans, it's easy to forget that there is a much darker timeline where things could have gone very differently . . .
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump advisers spar over new political arm — Donald Trump's top advisers are jousting over control of the new political group they are forming to help press the president-elect's agenda, as rival camps have formed with repercussions for who ends up as senior staff at the White House.
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Political Wire
Sherrel Stewart / NPR:
This Mostly White City Wants To Leave Its Mostly Black School District — DeVonte Kirkland is in his second to last year of school at Center Point High in Jefferson County, just outside of Birmingham, Ala. When he graduates next year he wants to head to Alabama State University.
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
In Poland, a window on what happens when populists come to power — WARSAW — The Law and Justice Party rode to power on a pledge to drain the swamp of Polish politics and roll back the legacy of the previous administration. One year later, its patriotic revolution, the party proclaims …
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New York Times
Dante Chinni / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Counties Would See Big Impact From Obamacare Repeal — More than 20 million Americans now depend on the ACA, also known as Obamacare, for health insurance. Data from Gallup indicate that a lot of those people live in counties that favored Trump.
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Talking Points Memo
Eric Eyre / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses … Follow the pills and you'll find the overdose deaths. — The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia's southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392. There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly …
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