Dem family feud could cost party Hawaii seat (Hussein's supposed home town goes GOP?)

My Fox Al ^ | 5/21/10 | HERBERT A. SAMPLE

[Libloather]

Dem family feud could cost party Hawaii seat
Updated: May 21, 2010 12:35 AM EDT
By HERBERT A. SAMPLE
Associated Press Writer

HONOLULU (AP) - Democrats won't budge in their family feud in this usually Democratic state, and that could result in Hawaii electing its first Republican congressman in decades.

The GOP is hoping to celebrate a victory by Charles Djou on Saturday in a special election against two Democrats - one a former congressman himself - who seem to be splitting their party's vote. Not only would that mean the loss of a Democratic seat in Congress, it would be an embarrassment for President Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii and carried the state with 72 percent of the vote just two years ago.

"I think the people of Hawaii are learning, just as the American people are learning, that we do not have to follow the marching orders of the old boy network and the establishment," Djou said this week in a TV interview. "This congressional campaign is an opportunity for the voters of Hawaii to say we own this seat, not the Democratic Party."

Prominent Democrats acknowledge the possibility of losing the seat on Saturday.

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"That would be a nightmare," John Waihee said at a recent news conference, standing alongside fellow Democratic Govs. Ben Cayetano and George Ariyoshi.

The former governors who ran Hawaii for most of the 1970s, '80s and '90s were unified in their message of voting for "a Democrat." But much like the rest of the party here, they were split on whom to support. Waihee and Ariyoshi back state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, while Cayetano favors former U.S. Rep. Ed Case.

[Libloather]

Old RATS don't die - they just dry up and blow away. (Any reference to Lewinsky is not intended.)

...celebrate a victory by Charles Djou on Saturday.

I'm poppin' a cork.

[Jet Jaguar]

Djou might pull it off.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Jakarta will go Republican when Hell goes Methodist!!

[AmericanInTokyo]

If the GOP wins, watch the racist Democrats, very desperate at that, scream that there are too many "Djou's in Congress."

Wow. Get out the Primo and popcorn Saturday.

[STARWISE]

~~Let it be! Go, Charles !

Video from today .

[Nachum]

Right now, I’d piss on a spark plug if it would help :)

[onyx]

Let’s pray for him and eat Key Lime Pie!

[STARWISE]

Ok ... LOL .... ('cept, I don't HAVE any Key Lime pie ;) .. got an extra piece ? )

[Jet Jaguar]

[onyx]

1 big slice left - I intend to finish it off right now and go to bed...lol

[Nachum]

Yep. :)

[magellan]

Mombasa is going Republican?

[null and void]

Vancouver is going Republican?

[seekthetruth]

Ping for a big WIN in Hawaii!

[Lorianne]

Just Djou It!

[Lorianne]

Djou would be the first Republican sent to Congress to represent Hawai’i in two decades, and only the third since statehood in 1959!