DAVID MARCUS: Pennsylvania voters to Sen. Casey, 'It’s over, Bob'

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – I met Michael and his buddies astatine the Penn Taproom. When helium recovered retired what I bash for a living, helium said, "What are you doing here? The predetermination is over." 

To which I replied, "Try telling that to Bob Casey."

Here successful Pennsylvania, the signs person travel down, the airwaves are mercifully escaped of governmental ads, but successful a fewer counties, including Bucks, the predetermination conscionable won’t end, due to the fact that 1 sore loser successful the legislature won’t fto it.

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Sen. Bob Casey is simply a Keystone State governmental scion, his begetter having been a fashionable governor, and helium insists, contempt each grounds to the contrary, that determination are still capable ballots to enactment him implicit the apical successful a contention that has already been called for his opponent, Sen.-elect Dave McCormick.

Here successful Bucks County, and a fewer others, the predetermination commissioners person decided that they don’t attraction that the state’s Supreme Court has ruled that undated oregon unsigned ballots can’t beryllium counted. They are conscionable counting them anyway. 

Take commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia who said past week, "People interruption laws immoderate clip they want. So, for me, if I interruption this law, it’s due to the fact that I privation a tribunal to wage attention. There’s thing much important than counting votes."

Put different way, "laws shmaws."

And oh, conjecture what, and by the way, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is controlled by Democrats. As 1 lad of Pennsylvania mightiness say, "Not a joke."

Democrat Senator Bob Casey and Republican Dave McCormick  ( Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images, left, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, right.)

As the evening progressed, I met 2 guys named Tom. For literate purposes, I privation they had antithetic names, but it is what it is. Both are successful their 60s, 1 retired from Dell, 1 from Amtrak,. They couldn’t person much antithetic politics, but they hold it's clip for Casey to springiness it up and concede.

Amtrak Tom, the Republican, was discernibly upset astir it, "I’m angry," helium said, "this is bullsh--, the courts said these ballots they privation to number aren’t legal, that’s it, it’s over."

The different Tom agreed, though helium didn’t look astir arsenic upset astir it. But told me, "Come on, the penning is connected the wall."

Both men were somewhat amazed by the election's outcome, but not shocked. "There were truthful galore Trump signs," Democrat Tom told me. "It’s Pennsylvania. We attraction astir politics, but I’d ne'er seen thing similar it."

The different Tom chimed successful that "conservatives aren’t large astir it, we don’t thin to bash gait signs, but this clip was different."

Later successful the evening, I met Dave, a lawyer with a daze of grey hairsbreadth and a benignant look who I person nary uncertainty has charmed a fewer juries successful his day. Once again, 2 guys from Philly with the aforesaid archetypal sanction were talking.

"In the instrumentality determination has to beryllium a line," helium said. "I don’t cognize however I consciousness astir ballots being dated oregon not, but signatures? If that's the line, it's reasonable, that’s the law, and the instrumentality doesn’t enactment without lines you can’t cross."

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Dave is simply a Democrat, he’s not blessed that Trump won, but helium besides knows that we unrecorded successful a ideology and successful a ideology sometimes your broadside loses.

If determination were radical successful Pennsylvania consenting to person Bob Casey’s backmost connected his mislaid origin of overturning the legislature race, guys similar Dave would beryllium main among them, but determination truly aren’t, determination is nary groundswell of folks who deliberation Casey really won.

Here successful Doylestown, a bluish dot successful a purple county, beingness goes on. This isn’t 2016 oregon 2020. Nobody seems to deliberation the entity is falling due to the fact that Trump, and yes, McCormick won the election. 

In those anterior years, possibly Casey could person preyed upon the choler of the losing broadside and caused a ruckus of Democrats to protestation connected his behalf, but not this year. Both sides conscionable look to privation this predetermination to beryllium over, and truthful it is.

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This week, Pennsylvania volition walk a cardinal dollars connected a recount that everybody not named Casey knows is conscionable a discarded of clip and money, a past gasp of ineligible wrangling. But cipher seems to deliberation Casey is simply a unfortunate here, he’s conscionable the loser.

The crippled is over, everyone knows it, and thankfully, astir radical look convinced that this predetermination was free, just and decisive. That’s democracy. Sometimes you win, oregon successful Casey’s case, sometimes you conscionable suffer just and square, and whining can’t bash thing to alteration that.

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