Michael Stipe: For Christmas, I’d Like the Electoral College to Reconsider Trump

‘I would like the electoral college voters to carefully weigh their individual decisions in deciding what a democracy that was set up over 200 years ago is going to look like at the end of 2016’

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COLBERT: "What would you like for Christmas, Michael Stipe." 
STIPE: "What I would like for Christmas, Stephen, on Monday, December 19th, I would like the people that are, the electoral voters who are voting for the next administration, I would like-- ." 
COLBERT: "The electoral college meets to choose the president." 
STIPE: "I would like the electoral college voters to carefully weigh their individual decisions in deciding what a democracy that was set up over 200 years ago is going to look like at the end of 2016. This is crucial. And I don't really care where they butter their bread. But I want them to be patriots. And so let's hope for the best." 
COLBERT: "The 25th anniversary edition of R.E.M.'s Out of Time is on sale now. Michael Stipe, everybody."

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