We’ve worked hard to organize all church congregations to vote in this election, and the impetus for this organization was same sex marriage. Additionally, Abercrombie angered some key voting blocks in the Dem Party early on, and it does appear this will cost him the primary. So Ige the Dem will be up against Aiona the Repub, and in the general election we will see if the Christian vote will carry the day, in which case it will also bring in Djou to DC in the House.
I sense the momentum is growing. What scares the Democrats is before they always could paint the Republican opposition as being over-privileged haoles (which to a large extent was true). But the new Republican support is coming from churches comprised heavily of “locals.” So especially if Abercrombie wins, it’s going to look like out-of-state haole lefty liberals like Abercrombie and Schatz versus locals (Aiona and Ahu and their supporters).