Posted on 03/21/2016 12:46:24 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Think Hillary Clinton has a lock on Hawaii’s presidential preference poll this coming Saturday?
Maybe not.
Two enthusiastic Honolulu receptions on Sunday for the wife of Clinton’s chief opponent, Bernie Sanders, suggests that supporters of the Vermont senator believe the Democratic primary process is far from over, despite the substantial delegate lead for the former secretary of state.
Jane Sanders flew into town to meet privately with about two dozen veterans at Tommy Kakesako Hall on Nimitz Highway, an event well covered by local media.
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I had a buddy who had the clap and he felt the bern!
In Hawaii, there has been a huge surge in Democratic party membership, with observers thinking the flood of new members will be Sanders’ supporters.
Stephanie Ohigashi, the Democratic chairwoman, said the party has grown by 5,700 since December.
“We are looking at big surges on the neighbor islands and some Oahu districts,” Ohigashi said in an interview. She pointed to the Pearl City to Manoa areas as also showing rapid Democratic growth.
“We saw a steady increase from December on. It was a regular pace of maybe two to three hundred a day, but when the Republican caucus was held, it went to a thousand a day,” Ohigashi said.
Other Democratic political observers are saying that a last minute jump in membership “bodes well for Sanders.”
The thinking is that Clinton is likely to do well with the party establishment members who are older and not so plugged into social media.
“We are seeing new members who are coming because of the social media campaigns by the millennial generation,” Ohigashi said.
Sanders organizers in Hawaii say they are concentrating their push for Sanders supporters to attend Saturday’s preference poll via Facebook and other social media outlets with a strong emphasis in getting new voters on the neighbor islands.
Ohigashi said the party figures show there have been big increases in membership on Kauai’s North Shore and the Big Island’s lower Puna district.
“The highest jump was in the Big Island’s 4th House District (Puna), where we registered 500 new members in one day,” Ohigashi said….
While some observers are expecting maybe 25,000 Democrats to show up, Ohigashi said she thinks the vote will top the record-setting 38,000 that voted in the Clinton versus Barack Obama contest in 2008.
Back then, the party ran out of ballots and some votes were cast on hastily scribbled pieces of paper. This year, Ohigashi said she has printed 100,000 ballots, just in case.
Ohigashi said she doesn’t have a firm number for total party membership, because some members are double counted, but figures the Democrats have about 70,000 members….
It’s the pro pakalolo vote ! They are launching a new social media campaign here . It is to be called “ Toke & Vote ! “
Welfare for all!
Light another doobie!
: )
Was coming home from Seattle yesterday and heading south on I-5 and was noticing all of these Oregon cars heading back to too. Then it dawned on me they had Bernie bumper stickers and had been in town for the big rally.
A few of the cars were made up of a bunch of old hippies trying to re-live their glory days in the 60’s
I see old hippies in Phoenix AZ wearing Bernie stuff. Kinda sad really. Never grew up.
I thought all the old hippies went to Key West, Frisco or Seattle.
I think most of them did, as you stated. Why I ain’t there : )
Frank Marshall Davis is smiling up from the fiery pit.
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