Posted on 10/30/2004 4:47:55 PM PDT by Dog
Kerry Spot reader William sends in this report of the situation on the ground in Hawaii:
In terms of presidential politics, [Al Gore's visit] was ALMOST a non-event. He appeared at pre-planned Filipino concert at a high school in a largely Filipino district of Oahu. The co-host was Dem. Cong. Neil Abercrombie.
The Filipino community has traditionally been a Democrat stronghold in this state, and flexed its political muscle 10 year ago by electing Ben Cayetano as the first Filipino Governor of Hawaii, and re-electing him in 1998. The coalition of Filipinos and Japanese-Americans is the bedrock of the Demo. party establishment here.
Kerry is in trouble in this state because recent polling shows the Pres. beating him by 15 points among Filipinos. Gore's appearance last night was an effort to bring some of these Filipino voters back to Kerry.
But only 1200 people were on hand — it wasn't any better than a "B" level political event. And he was largely preaching to the convereted. This was a gathering of Filipinos that are committed to Kerry.
The four local television stations all led their newscasts with it at 10:00 p.m., but the coverage was a little underwhelming. The real heart of each stations' story was that for the first time Hawaii's votes might matter — the electoral count may be close, and the outcome here is too close to call. They then covered Gore's appearance, but in the same story talked about the upcoming appearance of VP Cheney tomorrow.
But, most importantly, immediately following the Gore appearance story, each station covered the Bin Laden video.
Cheney is set to appear tomorrow at an event expected to draw 10,000 people. Rather than a local high school, he'll be in downtown Honolulu at the Convention Center. He's got a real chance to wipe the Gore appearance right off the map.
Very curiously, the two Dem. candidates for Mayor of Honolulu did NOT show up at the event last night with Gore.
Hmm. What do they know about the national race in their polling?
I've been wondering how voting in Hawaii will be affected by the time difference. Will afternoon voters in the islands know who has won the East Coast states? If Kerry loses New Hampshire, or New Jersey looks close, or Bush picks up an electoral vote in Maine, will Hawaiians feel like they know the winner?
"Very curiously, the two Dem. candidates for Mayor of Honolulu did NOT show up at the event last night with Gore."
Here in NC all high level state officials are candiates this year. When Kerry came to Greensboro the best he could do was have the State Auditor introduce him.
Nahh... The two democrats in US House are too strong for their challengers. Which is sad, because they're both die-hard liberals. HI is still Democratic state. Gov. Lingle just started the revival of GOP here.
Gore is so pathetic I almost feel sorry for him ..... but not quite.
That could explain Reverend Altoast2000's garb.
I'm worried that the cows have Mad Dean disease..
And the number of 'em that made it to the Rat convention in Boston could almost be counted on one hand - eh?
Oh My Gawd He Looks Awful!
I see. This explains why he wore Barong instead of Aloha shirt...
Get Mr. Puffy some antihistamines.
Speaking of NC, did you see Edwards' piss-poor rally last night with that great philosopher Bon Jovi?
Dunno. It's been blue since Elvis was a big movie star.
Has he spent the past four years crawled inside a bottle?
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA
ewwwwwwww looks like the tip of his nose is going to fall off any minute .. pUUU
Why the change in political thinking by the Filipinos?
If he has, can you blame him? It's not many people who humiliate themselves on the world stage--Gore's greatest accomplishment, LOL!
Hopefully other wise were in for the nightmare scenario but this is GREAT news from the Aloha state.
From one dog to another FReegards
Baredog
That's why I feel a Bush landslide.
>>>If they do, we should all buy pineapples on Wednesday.<<
HAHHAHAHA I AM LAUGHING SO MUCH on this thread HAHAHAHAHA poor ole Owl Bore HAHAHAHHAA and his 1200 pitiful people coming to see him HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA and now the pineapples HAHAHAHAHHAA this is so good for the soul.....
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