of the 66 electors who were bound to vote for horace greely, 65 of the 66 bolted and voted for somebody else, which you can kind of understand. he was dead. hats off to the three who still voted for the dead guy. that's a friend indeed. that's the last time. that also bizarre election, that's the last time this many electors voted, flipped the bird to the electoral college, said no. when it comes to the presidential election, i'm just going to vote my own way. but seven electors did that this year in the electoral college. that is historically bizarre on both counts. that is also going to be formally certified tomorrow at roughly 12:50 p.m. eastern time. two big prettyhogany boxes will be carried from the senate into the house claimer. vice president biden will oversee the count and will formally announce the certification of the electoral college vote and the election of the president and the new vice president. and with those results being certified it will also start a new era in american history, when really for the first time in our country, for the first time in our history as a c

editorsful we need them i read -- this is about another character are character that was working for horace greely. a very excellent editor and later on he and greely had a falling out over the war. this an an interesting episode at the bin of the war. at the tribune, wilkes -- the editor, who would eventually run into disagreement with greely over the course of the work was skeptical. he suffered no fool. early in war a green correspondent began atle gravel ditch some o -- of a battle, qu, this is the truth, to thine all mighting -- the cause of the righteous have triumphed. end quote. charles dana shot become a response: hereafter, dana quote, insending your report, please specify the number of the hymns and save telegraph expenses. so, who would want to work with people like that, right? let's see. where are we good -- have a couple left. this is my favorite reporternc story, and i will -- anytime we get into a reporter -- editor argument who is more value to the process, which i think is probably an argument that will never be resolved but in fun to have -- sam wick wilk -- both got dysentery