Hawaii: Insult to Injury
Posted by Justin Paulette
Republican Charles Djou has won the special election for Hawaii's House seat that should have been "a cakewalk" for the Democrats. And, to add insult to injury, "[t]he seat had been held by a Democrat for nearly 20 years and is located in the district where Obama was born and spent most of his childhood."
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Delightful, but not a political barometer of things to come in November. Two well-established Democrats duked it out to the benefit of the Republican in an election that only required a plurality of votes to win the seat.