Charles Djou’s victory could be short-lived. He’ll serve through the rest of the year and another election will be held in November for the next term.
For the first time in 20 years, a Republican has been elected to Congress to represent the Honolulu district where President Barack Obama grew up. The GOP midterm win speaks more to the fact that two candidates split the vote on the Democratic side than any surge in Hawaiian Republican pride. —JCL
The New York Daily News:
A Honolulu city councilman has defeated two Democrats to give Republicans a midterm election victory in the U.S. congressional district where President Barack Obama grew up.
Charles Djou’s win Saturday is the latest triumph for the GOP as it looks to take back control of Congress. And it came as a blow to Democrats who could not rally around a candidate and find away to win a congressional race that should have been a cakewalk. The seat had been held by a Democrat for nearly 20 years and is located where Obama was born and spent most of his childhood.
“This is a momentous day. We have sent a message to the United States Congress. We have sent a message to the national Democrats. We have sent a message to the machine,” Djou said. “The congressional seat is not owned by one political party. This congressional seat is owned by the people.”
We are launching a major overhaul of our comments section.
In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread.
Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts.
Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with.
Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page.
As both parties work in such close synchronicity, which o has
demonstrated time after time, and this guy is only ‘filling in’
until the end of the year when whoever wins in november will get
that seat, what is the problem? Would one even think this
republican could do the old switcheroo as o has done and
become a democrat not to matter how meaningless that would
be?
Being the pessimist that I am and believing always that there is a
better way, I fail to see congress improving its position of
working for the people who elected them, the money is just too
good.
By samosamo, May 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm Link to this comment
****************
As both parties work in such close synchronicity, which o has
demonstrated time after time, and this guy is only ‘filling in’
until the end of the year when whoever wins in november will get
that seat, what is the problem? Would one even think this
republican could do the old switcheroo as o has done and
become a democrat not to matter how meaningless that would
be?
Being the pessimist that I am and believing always that there is a
Report thisbetter way, I fail to see congress improving its position of
working for the people who elected them, the money is just too
good.
By rico, suave, May 23, 2010 at 11:18 am Link to this comment
Actually it speaks to the ineptness of the Democratic Party which allowed two clones to run against each other and cancel each other out.
Report this