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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 15 Dec 2016
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    Electoral College plotters likely won't get their wish. Still, they've obliterated a "norm" -- EC no longer a formality, now "politicized"

    1:22 PM - 15 Dec 2016
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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 15 Dec 2016
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        Future candidates are going to have to more closely "vet" electors, prepare them for pressure campaigns. Election = not over on Election Day

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 15 Dec 2016
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        Here's what has been "normalized" http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ec578b86110043f59def592d1f178be1/electoral-voters-speak-and-theyre-not-out-revolt …pic.twitter.com/BPelU3Z37i

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 15 Dec 2016
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        Doesn't necessarily have to become common for the "norm" to have been discarded.

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      3. John Ekdahl‏ @JohnEkdahl 15 Dec 2016
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        I just think this is much more likely to end up a trivia question than some new reality

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 15 Dec 2016
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        Electors' information has already all been posted online, you idiot.

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      2. Gale Clark‏ @galeclark40 15 Dec 2016
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        is this a heads up to @BrendanNyhan?

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 15 Dec 2016
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        I think he'd agree

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      2. John Ekdahl‏ @JohnEkdahl 15 Dec 2016
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        not sure I believe that.

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 15 Dec 2016
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        Why? Just observe the lobbying campaign underway right now. Electors' info posted online, social media tracked, etc.

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      2. Salt‏ @flsaltlife791 15 Dec 2016
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        EC needs to be modified to remove electors. State popular vote should just determine where the EC votes are auto cast.

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      3. Hoosier Nationalist‏ @GregLWooten 15 Dec 2016
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        My friends and I have been debating that idea for the past year. #ElectoralCollege 🇺🇸

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      1. Phil Walsh‏ @PhilipJWalsh 15 Dec 2016
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        next the seditious will be looking for a little known codicil in the Faber College Constitution...

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      1. Ali‏ @AliBakirdan 15 Dec 2016
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        This is portends badly for the future. When you degrade the very foundations of our Republic you are playing with fire.

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      1. Gregory Towns‏ @MrGregTowns 15 Dec 2016
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        now, all of a sudden, you're worried about obliterating norms? So much hypocrisy.

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      1. Anthony Mascia‏ @techROIadvisor 15 Dec 2016
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        I saw the Unite for America video attached to your column. Those folks would be better served uniting for better Botox injections.

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      1. TallyHoGazehound‏ @BorzoiBystander 15 Dec 2016
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        True. But they're already selected for that. Not sure they cld be moreso than they already are. @mtracey @leoluminary

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      2. Thomas Cleveland‏ @tcleveland4real 15 Dec 2016
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        Seems imaginable Trump would put pressure on electors if things go the other way next time.

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      3. John Ekdahl‏ @JohnEkdahl 15 Dec 2016
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        suppose I could see that.

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      1. Suvy Bo‏ @suvyboy 15 Dec 2016
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        It's been that way. There's usually an elector or two who won't comply, but it's prolly gonna be more this year.

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