Dem Senate primary post-mortem on Lamb's loss [View all]
https://triblive.com/local/what-went-wrong-with-conor-lambs-u-s-senate-campaign/
Experts this past week cited a number of reasons for Lambs landslide loss from his own missteps, including strategy, spending and underestimating his opponent, to timing and an unlucky matchup.
It certainly didnt turn out the way they might have imagined or a lot of people would have imagined, said Christopher P. Borick, director of Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. It was hard to find someone more regarded in electoral politics than Conor Lamb.
What he didnt have was the right match for this moment in American politics and, particularly, in Pennsylvania politics.
Not a bad analysis, but some silly comments from centrists like former congressman Altmire, who referred to us Fetterman voters as a "cult" and only the "left" votes in primaries. And another interviewee who thinks Tom Wolfe, an unabashed progressive, is a "centrist".
No quibble with the basic points that Lamb had little name recognition outside his home district/SW Pa, didn't fundraise well and chased endorsements rather than voters.