YOU KNOW KATHERINE HARRIS IS IN TROUBLE WHEN...

She can't get the endorsement of her home county's Republican Executive Committee. According to the Sarasota Herald Tribune's political writer Jeremy Wallace in the Political Insider blog, last Thursday Sarasota County GOP Chairman Bob Waechter blocked a vote on a motion for the REC to officially endorse the Longboat Key congresswoman in her effort to win the party's nomination to face incumbant Democrat Bill Nelson for his U.S. Senate seat.

The motion by Vice Chairman Eric Robinson was ruled out of order, as he failed to state the time, date and place he intended to make his recommendation prior to the meeting. Robinson said that Harris' perceived lack of support within the party led him to make the motion.

It just so happened that two of Harris' primary opponents, Will McBride and LeRoy Collins, Jr., were in the audience at the time.

Party executive committees are usually discouraged from endorsing candidates in a primary race to prevent possible schisms within the organization. I do believe that Florida Democratic Party rules actually prohibit such primary endorsements.