Commenters have assumed that John Fetterman, Leftist Lurch, is going to win this going away. Not so fast. Oz is barnstorming the state ceaselessly. He reminds me of a Judge who retired a few years ago. As a newly minted attorney he decided to run for Judge in his home county. He knew he would be creamed but that he would meet a lot of people and make his name known. His opponent did not take him seriously and barely campaigned. Come election day the young attorney won. Keep your eye on this race. Leftist Lurch is handicapped by his recent stroke, and Oz seems like a tireless campaigner. Get Trump to come in for huge Pennsylvania rallies at the end, and Oz might be able to win the Senate seat.
This is John Fetterman’s radical socialist agenda. He’s too crazy for Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/YHlkbtIhGe
— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) August 20, 2022
When running for political office go all in and fight. I am surprised and pleased to see that is what Dr. Oz is doing.
Update:
Oz within striking distance in an August poll is good news for him:
It’s not that Oz is so great. It’s that Fetterman is a complete ass! And will the PA voters see that? As PT Barnum said, never underestimate…
Fetterman looks, dresses like a an alternative,rebellious teenager.
We already have a president who is a stroke victim and cannot communicate, do we need a senator who has had a stroke and has the same inability?
Oz isn’t great. I don’t know why he ran for Senate in Pennsylvania, which has not been his primary residence or birthplace, but, oh, well. At least he is working hard.
For decades, Pennsylvania was one of the most competitive two party states. Then 1992 came along, and 43% Bill Clinton flipped the suburban counties around Philadelphia. The counties of Chester, Montgomery, Delaware, and Bucks have the highest population, the highest incomes and the most influence in Pennsylvania politics. Not Philadelphia itself, and certainly not Pittsburgh, with its puny population of 300K or Allegheny County, which has about as many people as the city of Philadelphia.
A little about Fetterman…he got a LOT of favorable news coverage when he was mayor of the poor, run down town of Braddock. Braddock, named for General Braddock, of French and Indian War “fame” was once a prosperous working class town in the Lower Monongahela Valley south of Pittsburgh and home to the US Steel Edgar Thompson Works.
Fetterman did little to improve Braddock – he opposed the Mon Fayette Expressway coming through the dying town, but the pathetic Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh TV stations fawned over him.
Fetterfraud came to Western Pennsylvania working for the Peace Corps or some other type organization..while living off his parents. He is not from PA. The man is truly a left wing nutjob who has relied on favorable media coverage to hide his true agenda.
The big dufus hates natural gas fracking. Fracking has been the impetus in property value increases in the counties surrounding Pittsburgh ( which is unabasedly Trump Territory) as well as economic growth.
Crime in Philadelphia has gotten completely out of hand….and has gotten worse in Pittsburgh, too, a formerly safe city. Yet, Fetterfraud wants to release felons.
There is no convincing the Kool-Aid drinkers. I ran into a hornets nest of them on Facebook when I was rewarded with a big Fetterfraud blurb and made the mistake of pointing out what a fraud he is. This will be won orist by Oz in suburban Philly.
Penbsylvania is NOT “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between”, as serpenthead Carville said thirty years ago. Pennsylvania is becoming another New York State, another Illinois, another Washington State…a state politically dominated by the Democrats because its largest, wealthiest suburbs vote the same way as its largest, decaying, dying city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jnymeJof4
Ted Cassidy, the actor who played Lurch, was born in Pittsburgh. He died young, at 46.
Pennsylvania is becoming another New York State, another Illinois, another Washington State…a state politically dominated by the Democrats because its largest, wealthiest suburbs vote the same way as its largest, decaying, dying city.
My wager is that it is doubtful that will happen (absent massive vote fraud). About 1/2 the population of Pennsylvania is exurban, small town, and rural and 40% of the urban-metropolitan population is found in 3d and 4th tier metropolitan settlements which tend to be much more hospitable to Republicans than 1st tier cities. Over 60% of New York’s population lives in and around a 1st tier city. The proportions are similar in re New Jersey and Illinois. The proportions are lower in Washington State, which is closer to your model.
Keep in mind also that from about 1952 to about 1994, Republicans who won statewide contests in Penna tended to be temporizers or liberals. Hugh Scott, William Scranton, Raymond Schaefer, Richard Schweiker (prior to 1977), John Heinz, Richard Thornburgh, Arlen Specter, and Tom Ridge were all troublesome to one degree or another. Rick Santorum, Pat Toomey, and Tom Corbett were proximate to the national Republican mainstream.
I don’t know much about Dr Oz except of what I used to occasionally watch on Oprah. (Don’t laugh). His show not so much. What I did see however was someone who was excellent at communicated complex medical issues in simple to understand terms. He was engaging and passionate about whatever medical topic he was talking about. I hope his political views are decent and sound.
A little about Fetterman…he got a LOT of favorable news coverage when he was mayor of the poor, run down town of Braddock.
Braddock is a densely-settled postage stamp suburb of Pittsburgh. It used to be much more populous. Either they were packed like sardines or sections of the town have been permitted to secede. There are 130 municipalities in Allegheny County, Pa, including 46 municipalities with populations under 2,500. The place is begging for a measure of municipal consolidation.
Southwestern Pennsylvania has always been part of my life even when I did not live here. I can tell you that, while certain areas are growing, including my township of South Fayette, the region is not growing. Neither is the rest of Pennsylvania, outside of Lancaster County and the counties surrounding Philadelphia.
As for Braddock, and the towns surrounding it (an indirect ancestor of mine, one John McLuckie, was Mayor of Homestead during the 1890 Pinkerton riots) – yes, there are countless tiny townships, boroughs, and small-class cities across Pennsylvania that don’t have any tax base to provide any meaningful city services, but it is never going to change…at least in my lifetime.
It is only recently that the counties surrounding Pittsburgh (Allegheny) flipped to the GOP.
In 2016, west of suburban Philly, only Centre and Allegheny voted for the Hildebeast.
My fear, as I stated, is from Ed Rendell’s plan to make PA a permanent Democrat state. Rendell was popular as Philly’s mayor and the Philly burbs liked him. Throw in Allegheny and PA would be a lock for the Dems. Since $pendell we had four years of Corbett, who was caught up in the Jerry Sandusky mess, and then eight years of Reichsfuhrer Wolfgang. Kathleen Kane was the Dem AG who sabotagwd a Philly corruption case, went to prison for it and was repla ed by the Philly ambulance chaser Shapiro, who sued the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for birth control but can’t be bothered to prosecute the Philly rioters from 2020, or any other Philly violent crimes. Krasner is a disgrace, which is why Philly reelected him as DA.