PA-SN 2022 megathread: Shrek vs. The Wizard of Oz

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

This would potentially make 3 SEPA candidates vs Fetterman.

Would this actually be good for Fetterman in the end? As in, is a modern-day Democratic primary really likely to end up dividing geographically/regionally rather than ideologically?

In PA, it is definitely east v west. This isn't even limited to dems. Look at the 2018 R Senate primary.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

I think that this attack is probably the biggest and strongest one you could throw at Fetterman at this point, but honestly it also feels like a Hail Mary for a campaign that seems to be flailing. Lamb would've been better just trying to hold his seat.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

McKean, my dad’s home county voted around 80% for Fetterman, which was expected by me because every liberal person he knows that’s still in Bradford said they were voting for Fetterman

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

In b4 Oz says Fetterman is still in his basement

https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1560351354245337088

I love that fetterman is out there in deep red territory. Many of these areas don't get any attention from politicians so he has basically a monopoly on being able to talk to them directly. That sways votes.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Brutal.
https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1562588501635256328

This is targeted right at the rural crowd.

Dems no longer know how to appeal to rural America and this ad only amplifies it. Painting a TV show doctor celebrity born in Ohio as a Turkish radical is just hilarious. These strategists people think it's 2002 and rural voters are going to vote against someone because he is a Muslim. Anyway, Turkey is a member of NATO, and is actually doing more to help Ukraine than the US is lol.

I could see a number of people in Pennsyltucky going to vote straight R, seeing "Mehmet" and voting for Fetterman. Not a lot, mind you, a thousand or so tops.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

With less than one month until mail ballots go out, Oz's team is now going full-negative

https://twitter.com/timelywriter/status/1562514329802395648

Tasteless attacks on your opponent's health will almost certainly backfire. Many people either have such health issues themselves or closely know someone who does. I don't think any of them would find this appropriate, let alone change their vote as a result. The opposite is much more likely, imho. Just looks like Oz is digging deeper and deeper into that hole he got himself by running a horrible campaign.

Really speaks volumes about the desperation within the Oz campaign. If that is all they got to counter, you know it's not going well at all.

it also hurts the #1 asset Oz has, being known for being a "medical professional" (even if there's plenty of evidence to the contrary).

It honestly feels like Oz's team is pretending this is a game of New Campaign Trail and they pick the answers that hurt you the most.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

I had said since the beginning that this was going to flip even if the sunbelt collapsed for Dems too. Candidate quality still matters, and Fetterman before his unfortunate health situation was pretty much perfect. Oz was about as bad as it gets, and yet somehow wasn't the worst this cycle (cough cough, Walker cough)