I don’t think Oz’s ethnicity cost him.. a vote here and there probably, but a major factor in his loss?
He lost by 3%... that wasn’t what cost him.
He was just a completely off brand candidate, period.
As a Republican in PA to win state wide, you need to run up the score in the rural areas, period... Those areas are blue collar working class folks largely... Some carpetbagger guy showing up in $2000 Italian loafers pretending he’s one of them, is completely off brand... and not going to sell.
That’s exactly what happened... Oz got an amazing gift with Fetterman’s stroke, otherwise he’d have lost by 6 to 8.
Run a crap candidate, get a crap result.... OZ was just a crap candidate.
What cost him is the fact that there are 500,000 more registered Dems AND they’re good at getting out the vote.
A pundit on RAV just now said that Pennsylvania is a “sticky” state — people stick there. A majority were born there and will die within five miles of where they are born. They don’t trust outsiders much. They know Oz is a Jersey boy.