12:32pm: In the end, the numbers barely changed from the first batch. Neil Abercrombie crushed Mufi Hannemann, 60-38.
2:17am: TV station KHON was just at Abercrombie HQ, and while the crowd seems pretty pumped there, I’m still not getting the sense that they think the race is over – they keep talking about waiting for the “second printout” (ie, the next batch of results).
2:10am: DavidNYC here. Not so sure about this call. Doesn’t seem like local HI TV news is acknowledging what the AP is saying.
1:51am: We don’t need to wait up all night, though – the AP has just called the race for Neil Abercrombie!
1:26am: It looks like we won’t have any new numbers for another two hours. Go take a ganja break and check back later.
1:17am: We finally have some numbers, and Abercrombie is up big: 42K to 28K votes (59%-40%). It looks like this hasn’t been a very smooth process in Hawaii today.
RESULTS: Associated Press | Politico
Neil Ambercrombie
“Ha, Gotcha!”
Knock ’em dead, Neal. He certainly has the physical capability to do just that.
last primary of the year.
F the general. No split votes. No run-offs. No cat fud. No intrigue. No unhinged base-pandering.
Neil Abercrombie – candidate voted most likely to take a ganja break during the vote count.
will a non-partisan beat the vote total of the Free Energy candidate for the Governors race (if he does, the nonpartisan winner goes to November, if he doesn’t, then he won’t. Actually, he would need to win 10% of ALL votes in the primary if he didn’t beat the vote total of any party primary winner. Which is a method that has NEVER been exceeded by a nonpartisan.
we’re not going to have to wait weeks for mail in or anything, are we?
I don’t want to fall asleep in church tomorrow knowing my luck I would snore loudly.
even though no results have been posted.
just the anti-establishment vibe and a gut feeling. kind of like lamont losing, seemingly out of the no where, to malloy.
if the “evening news rule” holds up.. we’ll know the results by around 3am CDT.
In other news, the sun is still out in Hawaii
ABERCROMBIE, Neil 41,809 58.78%
HANNEMANN, Mufi 28,276 39.75%
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/G…
winning all of the counties in the early results. him dominating in his home district makes sense, but unless it pulls heavily for hanners in the other, it looks like aber won
Governor: Aiona 95.5%, Carroll 4.5%
Lt. Governor: Finnegan 68.4%, King 31.6%
Senate: Cavasso 69.1%, Pirkowski 20.4%, Roco 10.5%
CD1: Djou 97.8%, other dudes 2.2%
CD2: Wharton 49.3%, Willoughby 45.2%, Gimbernat 5.5%
Abercrombie and Schatz are winning 3 counties, Hanneman and Kauai Island Senator Gary Hooser are winning Kauai
So all the non-Federal races have been called by the AP.
See ya tomorrow.
but only early votes counted. does this count as quick or slow? either way, sucks to be hanners.
Mufi was the mayor of the entire island that he lost 62/36 in early balloting.
Also, the Daniel Cunningham bio on Vote-Smart is one thing. His NPAT positions.. well.
“Put the U.S. Navy on the grid, build a floating island, & magnetic levitation transportation system.”
“A plutonium economy would drive to cost of electricity down into oblivion. The cost of everything would also go down. Change permitting into certification for assessment and liability purposes.”
Free Energy indeed
Anybody else seeing that? Annoying…
Looks like it’s over at this point.
Anyone got anything to say on this Caldwell vs. Carlisle race for Mayor of Honolulu? Saw an interview with Carlisle on the local tv (thank you internet, SSP please include ive streams from local tv stations on election day results threads, this is AWESOME, thank you) and I liked what I saw.
This is shaping up to be an absolute blowout.
Great night all around. I wasn’t too heavily invested in the mayor’s race, I’d be fine with either Caldwell or Carlisle. But I definitely wanted an Abercrombie/Schatz ticket and that’s what we’re getting.
OK I am sure most of the reason is a lack of competitive races on the Republican side but Democratic turnout crushed Republican turnout in the Primary by about a 5:1 margin.