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 ! “
Frank Marshall Davis is smiling up from the fiery pit.