Posted on 10/27/2022 2:32:02 PM PDT by conservative98
John Fetterman’s campaign might be the first in history to unleash an October surprise on themselves. There’s a reason opponents wait until right before Election Day to drop opposition research: It’s devastating.
This week, we were treated to a clinic on why it’s better to get bad news out early and in small doses. By hiding the truth about the state of his condition following a devastating stroke last May, and pinning their hopes on an October 25 debate performance, Fetterman didn’t just jeopardize his campaign—or which party controls the U.S. Senate—he also cast a pall on the Democratic Party’s hopes just two weeks before the midterms.
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In today’s world, Democrats are often (ironically) cursed by having friendly press coverage. This lack of accountability creates a false sense of reality. Instead of believing they could effectively run out the clock, the Fetterman campaign would have been better served by a press who forced their candidate’s problems into the open.
Instead, by tapdancing around the issue and accepting the campaign’s stonewalling, the mainstream media generally (with a few exceptions) lulled him to a disastrous place.
After a year of leading in the polls, his status as the frontrunner is in jeopardy. Now that it’s crunch time, his campaign could fracture and implode.
It’s always the cover-up that gets you.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
They might not be able to pull a steal off, but I think everyone will be surprised by how close fetterman will come to winning. The rats gotta have PA and it’s one of the few states with a well developed rat fraud machine.
They just want the seat with a D in it.
Leftist journalist words to cushion their loss.
It’s The Daily Beast too?
Daily Beast article ... NOT Politco ...
The Democrats running the show in Pennsylvania are planning to cheat, so Oz has to get enough votes to beat the cheat.
Set up to get his bitch wife as senator without an election.
This was one of the best TZ episodes…..
This article isn’t really from Politico; shouldn’t you fix it, just to be honest?
Kinda like shooting oneself in the foot, except Fetterman seems that he took a shot to the head.
Try this explanation: Fetterman’s campaign read the results of their internal polls, (not the lying crap the media publishes), and knew he was cruisin’ to a losin’. With that in mind, the debate wasn’t much of a risk for Fetterman (it could hurt other Dem candidates, but that’s their problem). A better-than-pathetic performance by Fetterman, or an error by Dr Oz, and the Dem media would proclaim Uncle Fester the winner. Oops.
Good point - one screw up by Oz would have amplified 1000 times by the media.
Thats why its called election DAY
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