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a Keith Olbermann in this is the
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resistance the most deadly adversaries
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of republican government might naturally
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have been expected to make their
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approaches from more than one quarter
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but chiefly from the desire in foreign
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powers to gain an improper ascendant in
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our councils how could they better
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gratify this than by raising a creature
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of their own to the chief magistrate
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recei of the union not my words they are
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those of Alexander Hamilton writing in
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the newspaper of the New York packet in
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its issue of Friday March 14th 1788 the
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Federalist Papers number 68 the one
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explaining how the President of the
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United States would be elected Alexander
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Hamilton 83 thousand five hundred and
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forty-nine days ago
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predicting the Russian attempt to decide
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our 2016 election for us and install
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their own stooge Donald Trump to the
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chief magistrate II of the Union how
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could they better gratify this than by
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raising a creature of their own a
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creature of their own indeed as if
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Hamilton was peering through time and
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seeing Trump's preening face and evil
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soul a creature of their own in the
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Federalist number 68 Hamilton was
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explaining how in the new constitution
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the much debated concept of the
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electoral college would preclude another
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country from putting its man in our
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presidency how it would make bribing the
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electors nearly impossible
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how it would also serve as protection
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against scoundrels and traitors talents
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for low intrigue and the little arts of
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popularity may alone suffice to elevate
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a man to the first honours in a single
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state but it will require other talents
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and a different kind of merit to
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establish him in the esteem and
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confidence of the whole Union or of so
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considerable a portion of it as would be
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necessary to make him a successful
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candidate for the distinguished office
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of president of the United States
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talents for lo intrigue the little arts
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of popularity Alexander Hamilton saw
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everything phony about Donald Trump
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except his hair Hanson of course
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describes a different electoral college
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than that which meets next Monday the
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one hamilton wrote about in 1788 existed
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before
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there was any popular voting there were
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no political parties no pledged
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delegates no rubber stamp it is a
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different Electoral College from the one
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that is our last defense against the end
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of America different except in spirit
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for if the electoral college is not
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still what Hamilton described it is
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still what Hamilton intended it is there
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to weed out the unqualified the
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unprincipled the merely famous and
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especially to weed out a creature of
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foreign powers or in Donald Trump's case
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all of the above but still a rubber
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stamp a quaint vestige of the fact that
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you have to win States not just votes to
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become president oh if it's a rubber
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stamp why does it convene if the
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electoral college is merely a formality
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in which the electors vote as the vote
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totals in their states tell them to why
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are the electors there certainly the
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certified results from each state are
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sufficient to declare Trump 3:06 Clinton
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232 if the electoral college is merely a
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vestige of state demographics in which
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the electorate as the vote totals in
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their states tell them - why is it legal
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in nearly half the states 21 for the
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members to vote for whoever they want
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the answer would seem obvious I'll be it
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kind of hard to believe never in our
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history have any of our leaders fought
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to amend the electoral college we have
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changed the Constitution to permit women
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to vote and slavery to be ended and for
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alcohol to be banned and then changed it
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back for alcohol to be unbanned we have
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changed the Constitution to include
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something the founding fathers quickly
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discovered they had left out the entire
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Bill of Rights but never in our history
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have we altered the fact of the vote by
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the electoral college thus there is only
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one conclusion it is there because the
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founding fathers were right someday we
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would need it someday perhaps centuries
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later we would need to follow Alexander
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Hamilton's version of in case of
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emergency break glass someday perhaps
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century laters talents for lo intrigue
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and the little arts of popularity would
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combine with the desire in foreign
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powers to elect their own present
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and only the quaint irrelevant rubber
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stamp of the electoral college the
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appendix of the body politic would stand
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between us and Armageddon turned out
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someday was Monday December 19th 2016 it
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is correct that 38 Trump electors voting
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instead for Hillary Clinton would make
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her present it is also correct that it
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is likely er that the Electoral College
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will be hit by an asteroid during its
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convention next Monday then that 38
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Republican electorate vote instead for a
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Democrat the country has long since
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become the land of me-first
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and to find 38 political men and women
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of true self-sacrificing patriotism and
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conscience in the Republican Party would
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at least quadruple the number of them I
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could name right now Russians could have
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literally instead of merely remotely
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swung the election for Trump they could
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be standing and Cossack uniforms along
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Pennsylvania Avenue and Republican
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politicians would still think but what's
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in it for me before they switch from
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Trump to somebody else but there is
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another way there are compromises this
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nation exists probably to die on January
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20th when a foreign backed usurper
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seizes power but for now this nation
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exists because of the second civil war
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we did not have the one that threatened
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to explode in the winter of 1876 77 over
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the disputed election between Rutherford
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B Hayes and Samuel Tilden the election
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was to be decided by Oregon Louisiana
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South Carolina and Florida those states
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sent two entirely separate sets of
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returns to the electoral college one
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favoring the Republican one favoring the
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Democrat and the lame-duck president
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increased the presence of troops in
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Washington because it was assumed that
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whoever lost was going to start shooting
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but he didn't we compromised it was an
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awful compromise the impact of which was
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still felt ninety years later the
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Republicans got the White House the
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Democrats got the end of Reconstruction
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in the south and tacit permission to
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disenfranchise blacks and they're
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descended upon us 90 years and more of
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segregation and Jim Crow yet the threat
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of civil war vanished and has stayed
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vanished until now at least compromise a
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resident scholar from the Cato Institute
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named Michael
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and wrote in The Washington Post on the
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5th of this month suggesting that
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instead of holding out hope of 38 Trump
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electors miraculously risking their
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status in their party just for the sake
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of you know democracy the hero this time
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should be Hillary Clinton her electors
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not Trump's should vote differently she
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should instruct those pledged to her to
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vote instead for a moderate Republican
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while Patriots in that party find 38 or
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more Trump supporters to switch to that
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same moderate Republican Canon suggested
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Mitt Romney one could make a list a
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small list Romney and John McCain and
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eben McMullen and for that matter if he
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were a little healthier President George
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HW Bush Romney McCain McMullen whoever
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presumably with a moderate Democrat as
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vice president would it be right would
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it be fair before you answer answer this
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would it be a victory over the Russians
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who committed an act of war against us
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by interfering with our elections would
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it be defense against Trump and this
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banana Republican government of his
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which will turn the rest of the world
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over to Vladimir Putin and oh by the way
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and our democracy and before you answer
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even that answer this you can't have
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Clinton Alexander Hamilton is dead the
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alternative is an unelected dictator
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would you right now trade Donald Trump
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for a president Mitt Romney or a
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president John McCain or a president
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Evan McMullen me in a heartbeat and I
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would then drop to my knees in thanks
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for the electoral college resist peace
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