Poll shows Fetterman up by 5 points, Shapiro up by 10 in Pennsylvania

[mystery-ak]

 Poll shows Fetterman up by 5 points, Shapiro up by 10 in Pennsylvania
by Chloe Folmar - 09/22/22 5:49 PM ET



Pennsylvania Lieutenant Gov. John Fetterman (D) holds a 5-point lead over Republican Mehmet Oz in their race for the Senate, according to a new poll from Muhlenberg College and Morning Call.

The survey, released Thursday, also found Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro with a bigger lead in the state’s gubernatorial race against Republican Doug Mastriano. Shapiro had a 10-point lead in that contest, the poll found.

In the Fetterman-Oz race, which will play a pivotal role in the national race for the Senate majority, Fetterman had 49 percent support, compared to 44 percent for Oz.

When it came to favorability, those surveyed gave the Democrat a bigger advantage. Forty-four percent had a favorable view of Fetterman, compared to 29 percent for Oz.

Shapiro garnered majority support in the poll, 53 percent compared to 42 percent for Mastriano.

Shapiro was rated favorably by 49 percent of those surveyed, while Mastriano was rated favorably by 31 percent of the voters.

The survey, which was conducted over telephone from September 13-16, found the two parties nearly deadlocked in terms of their overall support in Pennsylvania, with 46 percent of voters preferring Republican candidates and 45 percent preferring Democratic candidates.

The 420 Pennsylvanians polled ranked the economy first in a list of concerns affecting their votes in the midterm elections.

Twenty-two percent of voters said they were most concerned about the economy, followed by 20 percent who said their top concern was abortion or reproductive rights. A further 12 percent said that inflation was the biggest issue affecting their vote.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3656881-poll-news-fetterman-up-by-5-points-shapiro-up-by-10-in-pennsylvania/

[mystery-ak]

These numbers don't make sense..they say the economy is their #1 issue yet they prefer a Dem, who btw created this economy...

[libertybele]

These numbers don't make sense..they say the economy is their #1 issue yet they prefer a Dem, who btw created this economy...

It doesn't matter.  They have a 'D' next to their name.  They have been bombarded with ads pointing the finger at the GOP for the bad economy and they are so misinformed that they believe it.

[Wingnut]

His neck growth is winning.

[Smokin Joe]

If they have mail in voting, this is just setting the point spread for the fix.

[Kamaji]

[mountaineer]

There's no such thing as a fair election in Pennsylvania anymore.

[Wingnut]

It is not Frank Cannon's state any longer.  Philthy and Pittstye control the state.

[cato potatoe]

Pat Toomey won there twice, the legislature is still GOP, house delegation is split, state auditor and treasurer are GOP.  Nothing has changed except the Trump-endorsed candidates, who are terrible.

[massadvj]

Mastriano has no money. I see Shapiro ads all over the place.

Mastriano cancelled his only debate at the Chamber of Commerce because he objected to the MSM moderator.  This now makes him look like he is dodging the debate, and has taken the heat off Fetterman for doing the same.  Meanwhile, The Chamber of Commerce is now pissed off at the GOP candidate for governor with just 5 weeks to go before the election. Not a good look.

Oz is spending, but his campaign has been tepid.  Fetterman is the scariest looking communist you can imagine, and yet he is winning because Oz hasn't gone after Fetterman's soft underbelly, which is the many convicted murderers Fetterman let out of prison early as head of the state parole board. Oz needs to take some of the victims of the crimes these people committed and make them the centerpiece of his campaign.  Instead, Oz is out there trying to be "kind Dr. Oz" hoping to get the support of suburban women.  Fetterman is painting Oz as an out-of-touch outsider, fake TV doctor, and it is working.

Fetterman's weakness is not his mental agility, or lack of it.  It is his radical ideas and the consequences of those ideas on real people.  So far, Oz has not tapped into that vein, and time is ticking.

There is a reason they call the Democrats the Evil Party and the Republicans the Stupid Party, and we are seeing it being played out brutally in the Pennsylvania campaigns.


 

[mountaineer]

I was no fan of Dave McCormick, but he would have run a better campaign against Fetterlump than Oz, his opponent in the Republican primary.

[massadvj]

I was no fan of Dave McCormick, but he would have run a better campaign against Fetterlump than Oz, his opponent in the Republican primary.

I am not sure about that.  I have always been a believer that if a guy can't win a primary, he probably can't win a general election, either.  If McCormick was better at running a campaign, he'd have beaten Oz in the primary.

[Free Vulcan]

I've seen several polls that were closer, near tied.

This is a bit of media cherry picking here.

[GtHawk]

Enough about Fetterman, how is the alien on his neck polling?

[mountaineer]

Fetterneck: "I want LGBTQ education to be mandatory in all schools."

https://twitter.com/jj_talking/status/1573718254560083973

[Wingnut]

I've seen several polls that were closer, near tied.

This is a bit of media cherry picking here.

No way this Uncle Fester is gonna win.