HI-1 special election results

[Ebowed]

Maybe next time the DCCC should let the people who actually live in the goddamn place pick their own candidate.

Hanabusa will wipe the floor with Djou in November.

[ajc0918]

Maybe next time the DCCC should let the people who actually live in the goddamn place pick their own candidate.

Hanabusa will wipe the floor with Djou in November.

Doesn't matter, we won it when it mattered.

[Ebowed]

Maybe next time the DCCC should let the people who actually live in the goddamn place pick their own candidate.

Hanabusa will wipe the floor with Djou in November.

Doesn't matter, we won it when it mattered.

This is the sort of seat the Republicans are only going to hold as long as it is clear that they have no chance of actually controlling Congress.

[Meeker]

Maybe next time the DCCC should let the people who actually live in the goddamn place pick their own candidate.

Hanabusa will wipe the floor with Djou in November.

Doesn't matter, we won it when it mattered.

You won when it mattered? How does winning a seven month term matter more than the full two year term?

[yougo1000]

Djou won.

[ajc0918]

Maybe next time the DCCC should let the people who actually live in the goddamn place pick their own candidate.

Hanabusa will wipe the floor with Djou in November.

Doesn't matter, we won it when it mattered.

You won when it mattered? How does winning a seven month term matter more than the full two year term?

We won it when it was in the spotlight, 1/1 race. Not when it's 1/435. It will only be a blimp if it flips come Nov.

[redcommander]

Maybe next time the DCCC should let the people who actually live in the goddamn place pick their own candidate.

Hanabusa will wipe the floor with Djou in November.

Doesn't matter, we won it when it mattered.

This is the sort of seat the Republicans are only going to hold as long as it is clear that they have no chance of actually controlling Congress.

You don't know that Democrats are going to win the seat. Saiki managed to win reelection after being elected in a special election in the same seat, and the demographics and boundaries of the district haven't changed much since her time in congress.

[cinyc]

Djou is giving his victory speech.

[Bo]

Fortunately a Djou victory can be pretty easily spun by simply pointing out that Democrats got a majority of the vote in the district. And bringing up PA-12 again. I'm not really worried about this anymore.

Oh, there you go with your liberally biased........ facts.

According to Reagan, "facts are stupid things."

[Torie]

Djou is giving his victory speech.

Link?

[Meeker]

Total Democratic vote: 59.4% (100,514)
Total Republican vote: 40.1% (67,824)
Total No Party vote: 0.1% (960)

[cinyc]

Djou is giving his victory speech.

Link?

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

They're talking to Case, now.

And now Hanabusa.  She's happy to end up second.

[Meeker]

Maybe next time the DCCC should let the people who actually live in the goddamn place pick their own candidate.

Hanabusa will wipe the floor with Djou in November.

Doesn't matter, we won it when it mattered.

You won when it mattered? How does winning a seven month term matter more than the full two year term?

We won it when it was in the spotlight, 1/1 race. Not when it's 1/435. It will only be a blimp if it flips come Nov.

Hmmm... I measure success in terms of actual relevance, but if you want to make up narratives then OK.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

OMG THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEATEN THE DEMOCRATS IN OBAMA'S BEST STATE, THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA LOSE CONGRESS IN NOVEMBER!!!!11111

SCOTT BROWN, SCOTT BROWN, SCOTT BROWN!!!

/tomorrow's political headlines

[memphis]

And again I hate elections where less than 50% will do. What a load of crap.

[War on Want]

My prediction was close so I'm happy.

[Torie]

Having listened to Djou, he will not be a pushover.

[cinyc]

There are about 1000 votes cast today that are not in the count.

[Lief 🗽]

Not even 40%. He'll go down easily in November.

Kind of anticlimactic results though. This must be what British by-elections feel like.

[ajc0918]

This Ramsay Wharton character seems credible... http://www.ramsay2010.com/

She just got a lot of press in Hawaii for that interview...

[redcommander]

This Ramsay Wharton character seems credible... http://www.ramsay2010.com/

She just got a lot of press in Hawaii for that interview...

Who knows she might win too. She is certainly a first tier candidate so she could at least make the race close and she has name recognition.

[ottermax]

Good news for Democrats, they'll win the seat in November.

Good news for Democrats, Djou will have to vote for the Democratic agenda or the voters will kill him.

Good news for Democrats, no matter what Djou does, the Republican label will tarnish him in November.

Slim chance he wins, but he seems like another Anh Cao, hopelessly trying to balance between the conservative party and a liberal constituency.

[ajc0918]

This Ramsay Wharton character seems credible... http://www.ramsay2010.com/

She just got a lot of press in Hawaii for that interview...

Who knows she might win too. She is certainly a first tier candidate so she could at least make the race close and she has name recognition.

We'll see if her fundraising is anything... she does have good name rec, that's for sure.

[cinyc]

This Ramsay Wharton character seems credible... http://www.ramsay2010.com/

She just got a lot of press in Hawaii for that interview...

She was the press until a while ago - another TV reporter come Republican candidate (as in CT-2 - though Peckinpaugh  didn't get the party endorsement and will need to win the primary).

Having listened to Djou, he will not be a pushover.

Yeah, he's pretty telegenic and enthusiastic.  Plus, the Hawaii Dems are fractured.  There's no guarantee Case's supporters will vote for Hanabusa in the general or vice versa.  But Djou is still the underdog in the general.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Remember that Cayzoux guy?