HI-01 Special Election Results

[KingFlorez]

I think we all expected this one, the Democrats splitting the vote didn't allow them to win the seat. Colleen Hanabusa outperformed pre-election polling, she came in second. I think she'll probably win the primary and win the seat easily in November.

http://hawaii.gov/elections/results/2010/files/special2010.pdf

(R) DJOU, Charles 67,274 39.5%
(D) HANABUSA, Colleen 52,445 30.8%
(D) CASE, Ed 47,012 27.6%
(D) DEL CASTILLO, Rafael (Del) 654 0.4%
(N) STRODE, Kalaeloa 489 0.3%
(N) BREWER, Jim 269 0.2%
(D) LEE, Philmund (Phil) 254 0.1%
(R) COLLINS, Charles (Googie) 192 0.1%
(R) AMSTERDAM, C. Kaui Jochanan 169 0.1%
(D) BROWNE, Vinny 149 0.1%
(N) TATAII, Steve 123 0.1%
(R) CRUM, Douglas 107 0.1%
(R) GIUFFRE, John (Raghu) 82 0.0%
(N) MOSELEY, Karl F. 79 0.0%
Blank Votes: 134
Over Votes: 880

[skipos]

1. Too bad the Dem winning streak in house special elections had to end on a technicality of sorts

Ah well. Djou will have to vote the way his district wants to hold this seat in November, and the GOP doesn't tolerate moderates anymore. It will be interesting to see how that goes.

[dkf]

2. This is good news.

Hanabusa looks like she will take the Dem nomination. Case ran ads tying himself to Obama but stressed his independence. Lol. I would have been pretty incredulous if Hanabusa won outright so this is the best I had hoped for. I'm actually pretty surprised she pulled it off over Case.

[ellisonz]

4. Me too.

Case probably got defeated on the labor and women votes.

[golfguru]

5. Let me get this straight........

This was a special election for remaining term only? (

WHich then follows that the winner will face re-election in November 2010?

[ellisonz]

6. Correct, with primaries in September. So there should only be one Dem candidate...

...Case could bolt independent.

[Ken Burch]

16. Is he likely to be that bloody-minded?

I don't know anything about the guy. Does he really have THAT much of a sense of entitlement?

What was his back-story?

[ellisonz]

3. I would like to apologize on behalf of all Democrats in Hawaii for our ineptitude.

[dkf]

7. You know Case wasn't going to drop out and we want Hanabusa in Nov.

It couldn't be helped.

Anyone who can spin a Djou win as a good thing for Hawaii republicans doesn't have a clue. I expected him to do better. He had better commercials after all. Ed's commercials were God Awful.

[ellisonz]

11. I think the situation is part of our generally poor political situation.

Case is only strong because the Democrats are weak and the Republicans are destroying the state.

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. DLC strikes again

God forbid they would ever tell their candidate (Case) to drop out for the good of the party.

[ShadowLiberal]

9. The fact that Djou failed to break the 40% mark speaks volumes to how much trouble he's in

The fact that even in a three way race with 2 democrats and 1 republican that Djou STILL couldn't break the 40% mark, he's likely toast in November even with the incumbency advantage. If Djou had gotten within 7 percentage points of 50% then I'd be a bit worried, but not this.

I find it laughable that the media is calling this "Obama's home district rejecting him" when Djou's vote total is closer to 1/3 of the vote then 1/2 of the vote.

[opihimoimoi]

10. Hanabusa will mop the floor with him in Nov

[FrenchieCat]

12. so the point of running two Democrats was what exactly?

What was the Democratic party doing here?
Isn't the point of elections to actually win, and not just run? :shrug:

[opihimoimoi]

13. People figuredf out Case is SELFCENTERED AND RUDE

he shoulda dropped out for the sake of continuity and Party Strength

[Ken Burch]

18. Well yeah...but do self-centered and rude people ever make that kind of choice?

If he'd been around in the early 70's, Chase would likely have been a Democrat for Nixon.

[IndianaGreen]

14. The Beltway establishment backed Case

Blame them!

[Ken Burch]

17. It was about ego(I think particularly Case's ego)

I doubt there was a conscious decision that there should be TWO Dems.

As you may have observed by now, we aren't always that good at resolving internal conflicts within this party.

[Ken Burch]

15. Well, this serves Case right for insisting that it was Hanabusa who should get out.

Why doesn't Hawaii have primaries for filling these vancacies?

[Cha]

19. Here's to Colleen Hanabusa winning

in November..and then what would the corporatemedia have to say?