Was it a DU'er? Cause that's about as delusional as it gets. Look at the Harris County election data and you will find that Poe consistently gets the highest reelection numbers of any judge on the bench (and there are about 100 of em, so that's saying a lot). The district is solidly Republican and Poe probably has more name ID among the average voter there than any other candidate, Lampson included.
The reason he probably thinks Poe is "wierd" stems from the fact that Poe made a name for himself as a tough on crime judge who got lots of media attention for what is often called "creative sentencing" - things like making public spectacles of shoplifters by making them hold signs on streetcorners saying what they did. To your average left wing kook who thinks criminals should be "counseled" and "rehabilitated" that kind of stuff is "cruel and unusual punishment" of a kind that strikes at the very heart of their political philosophy. To your average suburbanite and rural east Texan (which pretty much covers that district's majority - Houston suburbs and rural east Texans) its an entirely different story. Tough-on-crime rulings like Poe is known for are the kind of stuff that will even get some union members in Beaumont cheering.