Posted on 05/23/2010 6:20:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Republican Charles Djou won the special election in Hawaii's First Congressional District – the Honolulu district where President Obama grew up. Djou is only the third Republican Hawaii has elected to Congress since statehood.
In 2008, Mr. Obama took the district with 70 percent of the vote, and no Hawaiian congressional district had returned a Republican for 20 years.
Taking his cues from another Republican who won in firmly Democratic territory – Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts – Djou saw the election as a repudiation of one-party rule.
"The congressional seat is not owned by one political party. This congressional seat is owned by the people," he said.
Hawaii’s most prominent Republican, Gov. Linda Lingle, said Djou must continue to put his state above his party if he wants to be reelected in November.
"What I did, and what he has done, is told people in a very sincere way, 'I'll do what's best for everybody, I'm not going to go with any special interest, even if it's my own party sometimes that might want me to do a certain thing,' " Governor Lingle told the Advertiser.
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Not Obama’s hometown! He was born in Mombasa, Kenya! (lol)
HI declares war on Zer0.
He didn’t “win” - he was elected by default. If there had been only one dem he would have lost by a landslide.
While it’s welcome news for sure, I believe there were two Dims who may have split the D vote...
Yep - if I heard correctly this morning, he got something like 39 percent; he’ll be gone after November.
You may be right, he may lose when the Demo-Socialist vote isn’t split.
Djou received 67,610 votes, or 39.4 percent. He was trailed by state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, a Democrat who received 52,802 votes, or 30.8 percent. The other leading Democrat, former U.S. Rep. Ed Case, received 47,391 votes, or 27.6 percent.
Correct. There were two Dems who split the vote and no run off, so the Repub won with a plurality. The Dems were big rivals and neither one would drop out to give the other a sure win.
Divide and conquer!
November, 2006, GOP President and Congress, unemployment, 4.5%.
May, 2010, Dem President and Congress, unemployment, 9.9%.
Two dems, one repubican.
Not too hard to figure out.
Neither dem was willing to drop out.
O simply made a robot call saying VOTE DEMOCRAT.
Okay. That's my point.
Simple answer - the Democrats are tearing themseves apart with in-party fighting.
Kind of like NY-23 in reverse right?
“If there had been only one dem he would have lost by a landslide.”
Do you think the Repubs will win back NY-23 in a “landslide” this November?
Kind of like NY-23 in reverse right?
I’ll bet you the comparison won’t be lost on the Dems’, though the Lame stream media won’t pick up on it!
A republican ran for office in Kenya?
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