Low turnout in Puna hurts Hanabusa's chances

[brooklynite]

Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser

PAHOA, Hawaii >>In one of the closest races in state history, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz appeared headed for victory over U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa in their Democratic primary for the nomination to the U.S. Senate.

The math looked daunting for Hanabusa, who needed to make up a deficit of 1,635 votes heading into Friday's vote.

When polls closed at 6 p.m., 1,508 voters had cast ballots in today's makeup election for two Hawaii Island precincts, Hawaii County officials said. Some 1,448 had already cast early ballots by walk-in or mail.

Hanabusa needed to win a sizable majority of those 2,801 votes as of 5 p.m. to overtake Schatz.

Read more: http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20140815_Puna_poll_busy_as_stormweary_residents_finally_get_to_vote.html?id=271421031

[Cha]

1. Pins and needles here on Kauai.. hoping for the Progressive who is more for our Environment

than the corps.

Environmental Organization Endorsements

League of Conservation Voters

Ocean Champions

Sierra Club

http://brianschatz.com/about/endorsements/environmental-organization-endorsements/

Statement on Keystone Pipeline..

Friday, January 31, 2014

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power, issued the following statement regarding the State Department’s final supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL pipeline permit application:

“I am certain that encouraging the production of Canadian tar sands – some of the dirtiest oil in the world – is not in America’s national interest. As other agencies, Secretary Kerry, and ultimately President Obama review the environmental analysis, I would urge that they conclude that the environmental impacts of this pipeline are simply too high and reject the proposal. Climate change is the challenge of our generation and we need to be moving forward with policies to support clean energy, not backwards with dirty energy like the Keystone pipeline supports.”

http://www.schatz.senate.gov/press-releases/schatz-statement-on-keystone-pipeline-environmental-report

[davidpdx]

2. The early votes occurred since the election and have not been counted

Is that correct? So there should be 2,953 votes (figures in the 2nd paragraph. Assuming everyone voted for one of the two of them, she'd need about 2,394 votes (roughly 2,400).

[Cha]

3. Hi david.. I just made a thread about the results in GD!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025394829