Inouye was in life, his endorsement was not always the most helpful thing. Obama - he still faces what could be a tough three-way general election campaign. Abercrombie survives the primary because of his financial might - and his longtime alliance with Mr. Hanabusa would be almost assured of victory.Īs for the governor, even if Mr. If he loses, the result would not be likely to affect the balance of power in Washington, because Ms. Schatz has flooded television with advertisements prominently containing images of his wife and father-in-law, who are Chinese-American, and trumpeting his endorsement by Mr. Schatz’s case, having the political muscle of the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, behind him. Abercrombie have the advantages of incumbency, and all that brings with it, including, in Mr. “I can’t let that influence my decision-making,” he said. Abercrombie, in an interview, declined to comment on the political repercussions of the appointment. “It gave an opportunity to his challenger, Senator Ige, that perhaps wasn’t there before.” “The governor created more problems for himself than anyone else,” he said. Schatz had ebbed, the remarks “resurrected some feelings that were fading.” Schatz, said that while enough time had passed that damage for Mr. Randy Perreira, the executive director of the Hawaii Government Employees Association, which is supporting Mr. “For voters who were undecided or who were not thinking of voting, Abercrombie’s comment might be decisive for them in supporting Hanabusa.” Okamura, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawaii. “It definitely will result in additional votes for both Hanabusa and Ige, and certainly more for the former given what the letter expressed about Inouye wanting her to be appointed as his replacement,” said Jonathan Y.

Japanese-Americans - the third-largest ethnic group in the state, with 23 percent of the population - are known for voting in disproportionate numbers. The conflict has the requisite generational and ethnic political factors that are integral here. Ige with a double-digit lead when it first polled in May that it polled again in June. The news organization said it had been so surprised to find Mr. Abercrombie 48 percent to 37 percent, a particularly stunning result, given that the governor’s spending on television advertising had dwarfed that of Mr. In a poll released this month by Honolulu Civil Beat, an online news organization, Mr. Sadly, the food was very bland bordering on tasteless. Abercrombie’s primary opponent is David Ige, a longtime member of the State Senate. Recently went to Pauoa Chop Suey and ordered 5 dishes (pork with sin choy (sweet-sour mustard cabbage), ham har beef with ong choy, crispy gau gee mein and two daily specials, jai (monks food and walnut shrimp for 45. As a result, the primary vote is shaping up as test of clout between a living president and a dead senator. Schatz, who supported him in the 2008 Democratic presidential contest Ms. To add to the intrigue, President Obama, who grew up in Honolulu, has made a rare intervention in a Democratic primary.

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