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The Republicans fielded an impressive slate of candidates to run in competitive Senate races in this cycle. I thought Dave McCormick was perhaps the most impressive of these candidates. His campaign bio is posted here.

McCormick ran against three-term incumbent Bob Casey. Casey is a party-line nullity, but it’s not easy to knock off an entrenched incumbent and Casey added a respected name to the mix. When I saw McCormick speak at a Beltway fundraiser this past July, he expressed confidence in his ability to win the race and in the event he appears to have done so. McCormick’s victory would raise the GOP Senate majority in the next Congress to 53.

The race has not been called. However, with an estimated 98 percent reported, McCormick has led for some time by 30,000 votes before they call the race. “They” — whoever they are — appear to be awaiting the discovery of Philadelphia votes to be found in a Philadelphia bottle. There is reason to believe that the Philly votes do not exist.

Here is the text of Geoffrey Skelley’s analysis cut off in the tweet above.

We shall see. In anticipation of the likely outcome of this race and in the spirit of Laughter Is the Best Medicine, we present the portrait of Pennsylvania’s dynamic duo crossing paths on the campaign trail.