“The Washington Post has been telling us for eight years now that Democracy Dies in Darkness. Anyone who watched the proceedings in Bucks County this week knows that’s not true. It dies in broad daylight.
As we all know by now, Republican Dave McCormick came out on top in the Senate race against three-term incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, Jr. As the final votes were being counted, the race tightened, but McCormick still led by tens of thousands of votes statewide, with not nearly enough provisional and absentee ballots still outstanding for Casey to honestly believe he had a chance to pull ahead in the tally.
But even if he couldn’t honestly believe it, he and Democratic elections lawyer Marc Elias sure seem to dishonestly believe it..."
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