Diametrically opposite views of Barletta, what gives?
I don't know the mindset of the posters, but it's not negatives on Barletta as much as it is a lack of positives to show his strength in the general.
Barletta has, at least for sections of Pennsylvania, not been an active campaigner thus far in the primary, and a townhall blog post isn't going to move thst needle much. He was the senate candidate against Casey (who is largely in office because elderly voters think they are voting for his dead father) in 2018 and didn't crack 45% in the polls. Since that point, I'm not sure what he did to be a better candidate or a better campaigner.
Barletta was an early and solid voice against illegal immigration, which is great as a conservative but it hasn't endeared him to the chamber of commerce types in the state party leadership. To combat that institutional weakness, he has to be stronger at the grassroots organizational level, and thus far he hasn't shown it in a way that some primary voters have seen.