"I wonder if Oz being a Turk MUSLIM was a factor."
Man what a pisser. Not saying this made the difference, I haven't gotten that far down into the PA-thetic voting demos yet.
I get not voting for Bishop Romney (even though I did) because Planet Kolub and white underwear -- both reasonable objections -- but Oz is patently obviously the most secular, most civic, most American, most domesticated Muslim in the US. I'm going by birth Muslim as opposed to one of these n-rich cRappers who converted in prison lol.
So, Oz consolidated his PA primary win, if you take the total GOP primary candidate outlay of votes it nearly comes to 1.25M, so I expected him to double that in the general election and sure enough: 2,459,060 votes (with 95% reporting).
Strokegoitermann consolidates his primary win, 1.283M -- almost less than Oz to the margin of Oz's 'loss' -- but magically also acquires not only the primary deficit, but juuuust enough extra votes to edge Oz at 2,640,056.
In all likelihood, it's cheating (since cheating can be targeted to any number), but it is also likely to some smaller degree, the over- >50 cohort who just won't vote for a Muslim. And I will not judge them for that -- there are almost surely service people in that group who did the Iraq cf and my allegiance is with service members all day every day.
Wonder if Fetterman knows the senate has a dress code.
Greece, Serbia and other Balkan countries suffered under Ottoman rule for centuries, which has not been forgotten. The Armenians were victims of Ottoman genocide a little more than 100 years ago. Dr. Oz obviously is not to blame for any of that, but people of some ethnic backgrounds might still find it hard to vote for someone of Turkish ancestry.