HI-GOV: Hanabusa leads incumbent Inge by wide margin for the Democratic nomination.

[RandySF]

U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa has a 20-percentage-point lead over incumbent Gov. David Ige less than five months away from the Democratic primary, with 47 percent of likely Democratic voters saying they would vote for Hanabusa if the election were held today, according to a new Hawaii Poll by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Only 27 percent of likely Democratic primary voters said they would support Ige if the election were held today, an extraordinarily poor showing for an incumbent governor in Hawaii.

Former state Sen. Clayton Hee, another Democrat, is well behind both Ige and Hanabusa with 11 percent. However, Hee said he is encouraged by the poll numbers in the three-way primary because he announced his candidacy only last month.

Meanwhile, in the Republican primary between former state Sen. John Carroll and state Rep. Andria Tupola, 40 percent of likely Republican voters said they would vote for Carroll if the election were held today, while only 28 percent said they would support Tupola.


http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/03/25/hawaii-news/hanabusa-leads-ige-by-a-huge-margin/?HSA=71c338517a84e24444f7476041baf95f72e20e88

[Cha]

1. Wow.. I guess Gov Ige isn't that

well liked here. I wondered if it might be this.. and yes..

Moore traces much of that discontent back to the Jan. 13 false ballistic missile alert, which seems to have confirmed the suspicions of some voters that Ige is not a strong leader.

“I’d be the first to admit we haven’t spent as much time promoting ourselves,” Ige said. “I’ve been focused on doing the right things in the right way and getting things done. We know we have a lot of work to do, but I’m confident that as we tell our story and talk about things that we have done, it’s very clear that people are better off today than they were four years ago.

“We have the lowest unemployment in the country, the economy’s moving, we’ve made progress and for the first time homelessness is down,” he said. “We’ve completed 5,300 new housing units, affordable housing is up more than 2,000 units since we’ve come into office. I’m confident as we tell our story and we put our record in front of the people, and they have it to compare to our opponents, that they will make the right decision and re-elect me as governor.”

Mahalo, RSF

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2. plus hawaii is spending $8 billion ($ climbing) on a rail system with no stations to get on/off lol