The most interesting part of the article is the quotes from Margeret Kenski, Kolbe's former pollster. From the article:
Kolbe makes no secret of his disagreements with Graf, who took 43 percent of votes in their 2004 primary and who Kolbe said is too conservative for the district. Kolbe said that he and Graf are not friends and that Graf did not seek his endorsement but that there is no animosity between the two either.
But that 2004 primary challenge shows that Kolbe’s endorsement might not have the intended result, said his former pollster, Margaret Kenski.
Kolbe is the least popular incumbent of the four, garnering 60 percent of the vote in the last general election. Kenski said strong intraparty opposition shows that any help Kolbe’s endorsement could provide might be offset by the galvanizing effect it has on his detractors.
“A lot of people really like him, but a lot of people don’t,” Kenski said.
“The people who are more intense are the Graf people — the 43 percent who don’t like Kolbe. It seems to me that would have a negative impact.”
Also, quoting Kolbe:“I do know that there were a number of people that told me, particularly people active in the fundraising side of things, that they were waiting for me to make some endorsement before they got involved,” Kolbe said. “So I thought it was important for that reason, as well as just simply making a statement that I thought this is the person best qualified to hold the office.”
This has been demonstrated in Huffman's initial fundraising numbers. However, does the endorsement translate into grassroots success? So far it appears that it hasn't.
I just wish that some of our local papers cared enough about this election to produce articles such as this.
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Gay congressman who supports partial birth abortion and has done almost nothing about the border for 22 years endorses Mr. Stiff.
Yeah, that’s going to help Steve a lot. From what I hear in the party no one even likes Huffman. He will probably even get fewer votes than http://www.mikehellon.com/.
Worse than the Kolbe endorsement is his number 3 backer, Pete Hershberger, the most leftist member of the state house. If I were running in a Republican primary I would not put a liberal like Hershberger as one of the top endorsements on my web site. Of course it is really nice to understand the crowd Steve runs with.
Toni is the queen of the RINO’s but she is not backing Huffman, she is supporting her ex Mike.
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