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Charles Djou Seeks to Win Obama's "Home District" Next Week
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Contributor | ScottĀ³ |
Last Edited | ScottĀ³ May 03, 2010 07:48am |
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Category | News |
Author | John McCormack |
Media | Weekly News Magazine - Weekly Standard, The |
News Date | Friday, April 30, 2010 01:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | "We won't know who has won Hawaii's special congressional election to replace Democrat Neil Abercrombie until May 22, but by the end of next week most voters will have cast their ballots. The state election board will mail out ballots to every registered voter in the First District today, April 30.
The mail-in election would normally give Democrats--who aren't as enthusiastic about turning out to the polls as Republican voters right now--another advantage in this district that Obama carried 70 percent to 28 percent in 2008. But Republicans have a great shot of winning the race because there are two Democrats splitting the vote in a three-way race.
Some have compared the campaign of 39 year-old Republican candidate Charles Djou, a Honolulu city councilman, for Obama's "home district" to Scott Brown's campaign to take Ted Kennedy's seat in deep-blue Massachusetts. Djou, who says he entered GOP politics as a "pimple faced teenager" interning for Congresswoman Patricia Saiki in 1986, notes that there are similarities between himself and Brown. Both are attorneys (and JAG officers) who have two daughters and are committed to fiscal responsibility. Unlike Brown, the cheerful 39 year-old Djou concedes, "There are no nude photos of me in Cosmo."
But perhaps a better model for the Hawaii special election is the inverse of the NY-23 special election in which two Republicans (Dede Scozzafava and Doug Hoffman) split the vote and paved the way for a Democrat to win. There hasn't been any public polling on the race in two weeks, but in mid-April a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll showed Djou at 32 percent, leading Democrats Ed Case (29 percent) and Colleen Hanabusa (28 percent)--whichever candidate gets a plurality of votes will win the seat. Case, a former congressman, is somewhat more moderate on national security issues (he voted for the Iraq war)." |
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