Pawlenty of Trouble?

Heading into this weekend's Minnesota state Republican Party convention I am holding out hope that my choice for governor Tim Pawlenty will still be able to pull the endorsement out. But I sense a backlash starting to brew against some of the negative attacks his campaign has launched on Brian Sullivan and that could be the factor that gives Sullivan the edge. In straw polls before the convention Sullivan holds a slim 51% to 49% lead which means it could go either way. Some Minnesotans tend to be a bit funny when it comes to the negative campaigning. They will tolerate it to a certain point and then suddenly turn against the attacker when they sense a line has been crossed and it is no longer "fair". This was probably what got Paul Wellstone elected back in 1990 when Rudy Boschwitz's letter accused him of not being a good Jew.