2004 Election Results

[Quetzal]

Just pouring over some of the electoral results from this year's 2004 election.

Some info:

General Election 2004

Bush 194,191
Kerry 231,708

City and County of Honolulu

Bush - 144,157 48.0 percent
Kerry - 152,500 50.8 percent

County of Maui

Bush - 16,187 38.1 percent
Kerry - 26,603 60.3 percent

County of Hawaii

Bush - 22,032 60 percent
Kerry - 35,116 30 percent

County of Kaua'i

Bush - 9,740 percent
Kerry - 14,916 percent

Were it not for the strong anti-bush sentiment on the neighbor islands, Kerry would have had a much narrower lead in Hawaii this past election cycle.

The strong anti-bush sentiment on the neighbor islands also hurt the Republican party locally. Republican representatives that never made the headlines were suprisingly voted out by their districts. I am talking about Jennigan (Kailuka-Kona), Kika Bukoski (Republican Upcountry Maui), and Guy Ontai (Milillani). Kerry won in all of these districts.

Bush's cotails gave him 5 new US senators. However, Kerry's cotails made Hawaii even more Democratic than it was before.

I was extremely happy that Ed Case trounced Mike Gabbard.

Two good things: Hopefully, Mike Gabbard will not run for Congress again after getting his clock cleaned (I had to put up with his signs daily - ugghhh) and he is no longer sitting on the Honolulu County Council.

[jamesinca]

1. That is one good result

How do we import that to the rest of the country is what I want to know. How do we learn what Hawaii already knows?

[Quetzal]

2. Well, Al Gore's victory was much larger than it was for Kerry

However, many of those in the "blue states" saw the gap between Democrat and Republican narrow somewhat (save a few like Washington, Oregon, Maine, etc.) Turnout in 2004 was much higher this year in Hawaii when compared to other presidential election years.

I was suprised by the results in the city and county of Honolulu. The only reason I can attribute Bush's fairly strong showing there is due to the fact that it has a high military population. As for on the neighbor islands, these areas are in the middle between rural and surburban and are witnessing an ever growing assault on the environment.

In a sense, Cheney's visit to Hawaii was almost like a blessing in disguise. Yes, it did increase Republican turnout locally, but it also increased Democratic turnout as well - big time.

Linda Lingle, our current Republican governor, was hoping to take back the state house. Instead, she lost seats!!!. Instead of having some of her vetoes overturned, she will assuradely have ALL of her vetoes overturned by the Democratic legislature.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Can she be defeated in 2006?

[Quetzal]

5. Only if Bush comes here to campaign for her

:P

[KamaAina]

4. Mililani is a neighbor island?

Guess they finally finished that moat :-)

I actually know Guy from a high-tech event we used to go to at UH. If I lived in Mililani, I, too, might have found myself voting (R) just that once. I think what happened is he got a chunk of deep-blue Waipahu in redistricting and just managed to get over in 2002.

The disparity between the solid cyan Neighbor Islands and wussy turquoise O'ahu is yet another sign that O'ahu is becoming almost like part of America :-)

As to Gabbard: I have a new idea what we can do with our solid waste, rather than shipping it to the mainland like he suggested :evilgrin: