I don't know if the link will be there later, but probably.
http://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-oz-fetterman-pennsylvania-senate-race-debate
Oz is answering questions with a lot of info & specificity. He is smart, and that comes through. Fetterman is speaking okay...but doesn't have many facts, any ideas (other than party line - which has been mainly hollow), that I can hear. He mostly says everything needs to be "high quality" and "inexpensive". He speaks, like someone ... well of low-average intelligence + basic high school level of education. Someone who doesn't actually have to fix anything, nor pay for anything. Sad case.
Based only on the limited amount I've heard so far, I think this is going to help Oz a lot. Again, Fetterman is speaking okay...so I don't think his relative underperformance can be blamed on his strokes. (So that is good, IMO...Fetterman is saying what he "thinks", and mostly demonstrating that he doesn't "think" too deeply about anything.
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Synopsis, I've listened to far more of this now. I think this is going to help Oz quite a bit, for anyone who was listening with an authentic desire to make up their mind, this is pretty clear. The only way I can imagine Fetterman's appearance might help him, is if - possibly - someone relates to Fetterman because he comports himself as ... I don't know... maybe a charismatic Rotor-Rooter guy whom you met at local bar?
Not trying to be harsh here, but Fetterman is clearly aiming his message at people in the bottom 1/3 of the economy. It's an "I'm like you; I hated high school, too. I presume his presentation (including his beard) is intended to make him look like a tough wrestler (although clearly not a healthy wrestler).
Oh. I get it. He looks - and sounds - very much like that character in "Avengers End Game"? Yeah, THANOS! (I guess his no-questions-abortion position sort of matches that?) Not a really great character to model, IMO, if you are trying to reach out to normal people.
Ohh. Fetterman got stuck when they came up with TWO word-for-word quotes on fracking, specifically
2018: "I don't support fracking at all. I never have."
2021: "I support fracking. I support the energy independence that we should have here in the United States."
I can appreciate change of position on this issue, through time (they caught Oz with a 2013 quote that he would like to see health studies to study impact on communities). But Fetterman just goes back to saying (in contradiction to a recorded interview) that "HE ALWAYS HAS" supported fracking...
Obviously, to be anti-fracking right now is tantamount to a death sentence in most of the US, and especially in Pennsylvania. So I can understand if Fetterman claimed to have updated his position. But he doesn't say that, he just speaks louder that he has ALWAYS supported fracking.
(Personally, I don't always support fracking. And I wouldn't want to live next to an unmonitored fracking area; evidence that the petroleum products are not good to breath nor drink are pretty commonsense, I should think. It's kind of silly to just not say anything, when they have a direct, sourced, quote from you, imo.)
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Maybe Pennsylvania is going to surprise me, but on the basis of this interview, I can hardly comprehend how a thoughtful, independent voter can vote Fetterman. I can hardly understand how even a dyed-in-the-wool, but half-intelligent Democrat voter can feel good about Fetterman (although they may feel stuck).
I expect Oz' surge to continue. On the basis of this interview, unless something else profound happens in the next two weeks, I expect Oz by a wide margin.
It's hard not to be pretty happy about this development given how fundamentally opposed I am to forever-war and Authoritarian government (vs. rule by law). I don't like the Republican party, historically. But I really don't like the Administrative State (Deep State/Creep State). So, anyone who is opposed to that and can articulate intelligent, possibly practical ideas reasonably well, I am open to considering. 100X so if they express a literal support for following the Constitution, in terms of change.
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