1,206 Votes

Correction :(Sun, Sept 6, 2016): This episode originally stated Robin Davis was elected Merrimack County Attorney in 2016. She was elected in 2018. It also referred to Gordon MacDonald as "suspended." He is on indefinite medical leave, which is not a disciplinary action. Both corrections have been made to reflect accurate reporting. We regret the errors.Twelve hundred and six votes. That's the whole ballgame.In 2020, Merrimack County Attorney Robin Davis lost her re-election bid by a margin thin enough to walk a tightrope across. On the surface: an incumbent who dismantled her own sexual-assault unit, bled staff within months of taking office, and got sued by her own investigator for hostile work environment. Case closed, right?Not so fast.This episode follows the paper trail — the lawsuit, the workplace investigation, and a bombshell news story that landed in the Concord Patch days before the election — and lines it up against the same recurring cast of institutional names that keep surfacing across New Hampshire's advocacy and prosecutorial networks. Then it hands you the other side too: a competing analysis suggesting this was nothing more than a geographic split, not a scandal at all.Along the way: an eight-month stall on an election-fraud case that only moved once cameras showed up, a soon-to-be Chief Justice on record saying "we need to do better," and a question that refuses to resolve itself neatly — was Robin Davis voted out, or was she pushed?No verdicts here. Just the confirmed record, the unconfirmed hypothesis clearly labeled as such, and the invitation to follow the door that barely closed.Receipts over vibes. Always. Get full access to The Gracie Gato Podcast at gracieformermrsgato.substack.com/subscribe