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Well, we start this week with the not quite yet finished presidential election.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein's effort to get recounts in three critical

states, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania is underway, at least in Wisconsin, and Trump supporters

have responded by filing lawsuits to stop the recounts. The Clinton campaign has very reluctantly

joined in, but they're taking a decidedly passive role with top Clinton staffers saying they've had election experts look over the results, and they've concluded there's no chance that the recounts will change the result of the election.

And, you know, as Clinton's leading, the popular vote continued to grow last week, right now she's ahead by more than 2.5 million votes.

Donald Trump responded on Twitter, of course, tweeting first that he could have won the popular

vote if he wanted to, of course, and then tweeting that he actually did win the popular

vote because of millions of fraudulent votes cast for Clinton, a charge which he offered no support for,

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