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Outside the L.A. Times building, vendors were doing brisk business selling T-shirts and buttons in the days after the election.

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( Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times )

Outside the L.A. Times building, vendors were doing brisk business selling T-shirts and buttons in the days after the election.

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