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Joe Cool

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Wed Oct 19, 2022, 11:11 AM
Oct 2022

Long time browser of DU. This will be my very first post on the site.
First off, I am a resident of (the City of Butler in) Butler County where Fetterman held his rally.
Butler is the county located north of Allegheny County where Pittsburgh is located. The GOP has a +27 registration advantage in the county mainly due to the historic nature of party affiliation but that is slowly starting to change because of growth in the southern part of the county.
Oz had a "rally" on Monday during the day at a restaurant in Cranberry Township, which is just south of where Fetterman had his rally in Harmony. 60 people were in attendance at Oz's "rally" which seemed to be more of an invite only since it was mainly comprised of local GOP party bigwigs, hardcore party members, and Senator Tom Cotton for whatever reason. Fetterman having about 440 (the actual attendance rather than the mentioned number of 200 in the article) is HUGE for Butler County.
Now, it might be a few people putting up a lot of signs but I have never seen so many signs for Democratic candidates in and around the Butler area. The three Democratic candidates of note are the aforementioned John Fetterman for Senate, Josh Shapiro for Pennsylvania governor, and Dan Pastore for Congress (HoR).
I can tell everyone on DU this that there is zero enthusiasm for any GOPee (Google Oz and urine) candidate in my area of Pennsylvania except among the Republican faithful. No one except hardcore GOPeers are excited about Doug Mastriano (Republican candidate for governor) and the aforementioned Dr. Oz for Senate. Almost no one is going to vote for Mastriano just to vote against Shapiro for governor. It's just not going to happen. A few people who aren't GOPeers might vote for Oz due to some reservations about Fetterman but I don't believe it will make much of a difference. I can unequivocally tell you that many Republicans will be voting for Fetterman and Shapiro and almost no Democrats (who aren't DINOs) will be voting for Mastriano and Oz. It's just not going to happen.
Unless Fetterman does not do well at the debate next week, both he and Shapiro are going to win in blowouts.

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