Remember Election Day last week? Turns out it will be continuing until November 27th because the PA Senate race was so tight.  The AP called the the race between Bob Casey and Dave McCormick last Thursday. I already poured dirt on Casey’s grave. But here’s the thing, since McCormick won by a .5% chance margin, state law automatically triggers a recount. Bob Casey:

Casey might actually win this thing!

At least that’s what his team thinks. They claim he has a narrow path because of something like 60,000 provisional ballots that still haven’t been counted. Currently the race is separated by 30,000 votes and the Casey campaign is basically you scrounging around in the seat cushions trying to find enough change to buy a Stone Cold Steve Austin ice cream bar from the Ice Cream Man. That’s basically what Philadelphia’s city commissioner Seth Bluestein is saying via Dan Snyder and Casey Kuhn at CBSNews.com:

Casey’s campaign has said it’s been waiting for outstanding votes from around the state, from mail-in ballots to overseas and military votes and provisional ballots. In Philadelphia, the state’s largest county and one where Casey has garnered more than 78% of the vote, commissioners say the number of votes left out there is running thin.

“We had about 20,000 provisional ballots to start with. We’ve already counted 11,000 of those,” city commissioner Seth Bluestein said Wednesday.

Bluestein told CBS News Philadelphia the election board wrapped up voting on outstanding mail-in votes Wednesday. He says a few thousand could not be counted for various reasons, mostly a lack of a signature or secrecy envelope.

As for the remaining provisional ballots, Bluestein said the board will take those up on Friday. But he warned, “most of those will probably end up not getting counted.”

The Department of Stats says there are about 60,366 uncounted provisional ballots and 20,155 uncounted mail-in and absentee ballots. That includes ballots for which officials still need to determine eligibility or validity.

So there are 9,000 still left to be counted in Philly and 51,000 left throughout the state if I’m reading that right. That means Bob Casey would need close to 80% of those votes to have his name on it. In a divided state. That flipped red in the Presidential election. I’m all for not going down without a fight, but come on Bobby. Unless 80% of those people aren’t red blooded Americans who love hot dogs the writing is on the wall. No recount has ever overturned the vote in the four times it’s been enacted since 2004. You’re cooked. Well, you were actually cooked when you tweeted this:

I really hate to see our story have an unhappy ending. I thought you were one of the good ones.


P.S. Could you imagine getting the job, going through orientation, and then your boss tells you he made a mistake and hired the wrong person?  You told all your friends and family you got a new job. You saw how proud they were of you. Then on Monday you had to sit in cramped boardroom and listen to Janice from HR talk about synergies and play dumb ice breaker games with people you don’t want to know. Eat warm egg salad and dry turkey and cheese sandwiches. But at least you were getting paid and had a job for the near future. Imagine going through all of that and here comes Bob Casey out of nowhere to swoop in. Now you gotta go back to your friends and family and tell them it was all for nothing. At least if Dave McCormick loses he can just go back to his mansion in Connecticut and his billions of hedge fund dollars from <Trump voice> CHINA!