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Deminpenn

(16,344 posts)
9. I'm not torn at all, Fetterman's it
Fri Aug 6, 2021, 01:20 PM
Aug 2021

and I'm one of Lamb's constituents.

Conor Lamb has little to no appeal to the Dem base. He has no name recognition outside of Allegheny County and parts of SW Pa. Republicans aren't going to vote for Lamb and he doesn't appeal to the progressive base at all.

Conor Lamb would be a younger version of Joe Manchin. No thanks.

Never forget that Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in many of the "red" counties in PA in 2016 in the Dem primary.

Here's how I see the primary playing out. Fetterman will win western PA pretty easily. Kenyatta and Val Arkoosh and Shariff Street might cancel themselves out in Phila/SE Pa. Fetterman's from York and his populist message will play well in the "T" just as it did for Sanders. I honestly don't see any constituency for Lamb. I see Fetterman winning with a plurality if not outright majority.

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