Is Hawaii Home to the Next Scott Brown?
By HHR | February 6th, 2010 | Category: Featured, General, Politics |Tim Mak a reporter and columnist for FrumForum.com has an interesting article out today about an upcoming election in Hawaii’s first congressional district. Tim sits down with Charles Djou, the Republican candidate in this upcoming race.
Save for a special election in Florida’s 19th congressional district, the May special election in Hawaii’s 1st congressional will be the next snapshot of American popular opinion on the road to the November elections this year. FrumForum sat down with Charles Djou, the Republican candidate in this upcoming race.
Unlike Florida-19, which was won by President Obama by over thirty points in 2008, Hawaii-1 looks to be a district where voter dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party could lead to a Republican pick-up. While still quite blue (D+15 in the Cook Partisan Voting Index), Hawaii’s 1st congressional district has gone to the GOP in the last four governor’s races.
Further, the special election is set up in winner-take-all format, meaning that there are no primaries. With two, maybe three Democrats in the race, Djou thinks that Hawaii-1 could be the inverse of one closely-followed special election in upstate New York: “I think that my special election could essentially be the inverse of the New York-23 election, with the Democrats splitting the vote.”
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Campaign Site - Djou for Hawaii - http://www.djou.com/
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I have always been amused when a yardstick to measure with by the media or as pundits will infer such as this article does, see that Charles Djou, he is the Hawaiian equivalent of an Anglo…….Scott Brown from Massachusetts. Time magazine once referred to Malcolm X as the Black Billy Graham. There are other examples where individuals of other ethnic groups have been utilized as an analogy to a white person of renown. The average white person is somehow clueless about who the prominent minorities are so this device has to be used.