What is it with Hawaii and primariing Governors?
Partially it's the nature of a one party state; there's an odd ethnic cleavage that emerges a lot as well.If two incumbent governors in a row lose primaries, can we end the MUH HAWAII ALWAYS LOVES INCUMBENTS meme which originated solely because Dubya did better than expected there 14 years ago?
This always struck me as a vaguely racist idea - "oh you know these Asians they always love their strong leaders!" They only kept Inouye and Akaka round for so long because of the huge amounts of cash they got for having entrenched senior incumbents, which is the same for all small and overlooked states.
I'm a big fan of ethnic cleavage myself.
