Your point about the Fetterman camp adopting a strategy to benefit as much as possible from pre-debate early voting is valid.

I think you’re likely over-rating how many voters would’ve changed their mind or not voted had they seen Fetterman’s debate performance though. The electorate is very polarized and, what’s more, understands that a senator has relatively little he or she has to actually do compared to, say, a governor.

You concede Oz was a horrible candidate. He was. Oz was also on the ballot with Mastrioni who managed to be just as bad, though for different reasons. It was a clownshow.