The headline on the article at the top of the thread describes a candidate as “surging” in the polls — to 23%. Something is going to have to cha be dramatically in the next week for any of these candidates to come out of the primary as a serious contender.
You clearly are not in PA or remotely familiar with this race.
OZ ans McCormick have both spent tens of millions each, for the last 4 or 5 months and the sum total support for both of them combined is about 40%.. or just about the total of where the undecideds are in this point (around 40%) a week before Election Day.
Barnette has had no press or budget to speak of and handily was the winner of both the debates, at least in terms of affecting the race… both of which only happened in the last few weeks, before that most voters had never seen her… so yea her surging from 12 points to 20 points or wherever it is is a very big deal on this race.
Reality is OZ and MCCormick are both lousy candidates and Fetterman will likely eat their lunches.. neither have any organic support in the state and offer no compelling argument or story going into the general.
GOP has a far better shot this fall with her than Oz or MCCormick… he’ll she absolutely bitch slapped OZ who is without question the worst candidate ever.
Oz and MCCormick are at best generic GOP candidates, if either of them are the candidate and win then a ham sandwich with an R beside their name would have won.
Given how Kathy disnantled Oz in the debates I will take my chances with her than either one the others. She’s literally Put herself in the top tier purely on 2 debate performances… on par with 2 folks who have spent 10s on millions over 4 months.
She’s by far the strongest GOp candidate with the most compelling narrative..
We will see how it goes.. hopefully she’ll pull out the upset and we’ll see where things are in the fall.
AC ; see post #113 please