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On the way to the warehouse, the van had taken the tour group past the verdant banks of the Schuylkill River, a stormwater ...

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"I’m a long time at elections, people know me, they know the kind of person I am. In victory or in defeat, I’m a decent ...

This wasn’t just rejection of candidates. This was people bringing their own Sharpies in sufficient numbers to leave messages which — as it turned out — made it efficiently into mainstream media ...