Posted on 09/23/2014 4:16:54 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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The man who represents Hawaii Republicans’ best hope to pick up a congressional seat has a 4 percentage point lead over his Democratic opponent.
Charles Djou leads Mark Takai 46 percent to 42 percent in Civil Beat’s latest poll. Just 12 percent of voters are undecided.
The state has only sent three Republicans to Washington, D.C., since statehood in 1959, and Djou, a former state legislator and a former Honolulu City Councilman, is one of them. He won a special election to replace Neil Abercrombie in 2010 when the longtime congressman resigned to run successfully for governor.
But the special election was a winner-take-all contest that Djou won because Colleen Hanabusa and Ed Case split the Democrats. Hanabusa won the seat outright later that year and held Djou off again in 2012, though he made a respectable showing in both elections.
In a state controlled by Democrats, Djou is not necessarily at an advantage over Takai.
“Djou is a real known quantity, and he’s well regarded,” said Matt Fitch, executive director of Merriman River Group, which conducted The Civil Beat Poll. “And he regularly finishes closer than you might expect. But this is his fourth candidacy for this office and it’s a tough district for a Republican to win.”
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Are there any Freepers from Hawaii? If so, you need to get some Djou yard signs and encourage your like-minded loved ones and friends to vote. The nation’s future is at stake.
Who is Djou, how conservative is he?
And yet the Senate battle shows the Dem up by 37.
Hawaii is a crazy place.
In a liberal state a “Moderate Rebublican” is good enough. He is going to be better than a demonrat just by allowing the Republicans to control the committee chairs. If he votes 30% conservative his district is 30% better off.
The time ask “How conservative is he?” is in a State where a conservative can win
Interesting things happening in Hawaii these days. The people are pretty upset about gay marriage happening here.
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Actually Hawaii is fairly conservative socially. It's the fiscal issues which are the problem.
The state has only sent 3, count ‘em 3, Rs to congress since statehood, how conservative could he possibly be?
If he’s not an out-an-out male lesbian commie, that’s the best we could expect!
Wow! Rothenberg rate this a ‘safe Democrat’ seat!
Hope more polls back this up.
This would be HUGE.
Under that scenario I wouldn’t vote for him
Ok my friends: Should I spend election dat in the Islands? Any election nite party’s going on there? They can at least celebrate the takeover of the senate.
Not very. He’s fiscally astute, but morally agnostic.
Anyone who had this as safe dem is dumb, Djou got 45% in 2012 while Obama was getting 70% in the district! And this time it’s an open seat, no Obama on the ballot.
This would be a major gain for our weakest state GOP, and a personal loss for Obama is own (true) backyard.
A couple people are whining that Djou is not conservative enough, I just shake my head at them.
Simple explanation, the GOP nominee in the Senate race is a nobody with scant resources, a former State Rep. who’s run and lost multiple times.
If Lingle had run for the Senate again, or Djou or Duke Aiona (the gubernatorial nominee) had for run for the Senate instead, then we’d have a real chance in the Senate race.
He’s a former one-term Congressman who previously served in the state legislature and Honolulu City Council. A moderate, but running in a district that twice gave Obama about 70% of the vote.
Linda Lingle is considered a failed Governor and is no longer popular there. Her second term coincided with budgetary problems which Abercrombie promised to fix.
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