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Electoral college results should signal end to temper tantrum

Throughout the United States, presidential electors cast their ballots recently. Fewer than a handful of them broke faith with their states’ electorates by not voting as the Nov. 8 results in their states indicated they should.

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was confirmed by the Electoral College, by a 304-227 margin.

But in some places, protesters continued to demand that Trump not be allowed to take office. That came after some electors reported being pressured to withhold their votes from Trump. A few said they had been threatened. A few protesters insisted confirming Trump’s victory amounted to treason. Actually, it would have been much closer to treason had the electors not done what they did.

A tiny minority of Americans have succumbed to a sort of hysteria over the election. They resemble children throwing tantrums because they did not get their way. It’s over. It is time to move on, working together as Americans for the good of our great nation.

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