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I'm a little annoyed, not a little, a lot annoyed.

Why?

Well, two things are happening.

One is Democrats are now mounting a full court press in Pennsylvania.

It's Dave McCormick has already been declared the winner out there.

And he's up by 39,000 votes.

I know there's some provisional ballots out there, about 97,000 of them a lot, but usually about

25% of those will be passed out, passed away, and they won't make it.

I've gone over the math with everybody that knows numbers in Pennsylvania, and they're

telling me that it is pretty much mathematically impossible for Dave McCormick to lose this race at all.

Again, he's been declared the winner.

It's unprecedented.

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