[paudio]

Sad to say, but Cheney's visit on Sunday energized Democratic voters to come out, and being a strong Democratic state, the local Republicans have to pay the price.

[GeronL]

Darn. Maybe it would have helped if he didn't go? weird.

[fieldmarshaldj]

This ranks amongst the worst of our losses, along with Colorado, where we lost the majority control of the entire legislature (and I think wiped out Gov. Bill Owens's shot at the WH for good in '08). If we hadn't knocked off 1 legislative Hawaiian House incumbent to offset losing 6 members, we'd have been down to 9 out of 40. This may not bode well for Lingle's reelection chances, either, let alone her ability to accomplish legislative goals.

[k2blader]

Hate to admit it but Ahnold probably would have energized the vote for Bush.

We had good weather on Tuesday too, so all the pro-Dem old folks were easily able to go to the polls for a bit of election year excitement.

[Dataman]

Stupid Minnesota lost 12 seats to the dims partly because they aimed the gun at their own foot.

[goldstategop]

It could be worse. Linda Lingle's popular but her party isn't. In the islands, the Democratic machine is too much entrenched to dislodge completely after forty-five years.

[OldFriend]

More like slick willie's minions were busy manufacturing votes while everyone else was focused on the presidential campaign.

[Clintonfatigued]

Was state Representative Barbara Marumoto reelected?