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RandySF's JournalHI-GOV: Hanabusa leads incumbent Inge by wide margin for the Democratic nomination.
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
Grassroots in Alabama: An emerging women's movement
In the lead up to the special election in December, Brown and local women organized a protest against Moore dressed in the red cloaks and white bonnets of "handmaids" — women held as men's property in the dystopian novel and TV series, "The Handmaid's Tale."
Doug Jones won a hard-fought victory in a campaign watched nationwide. And Heather Brown realized she was just getting started.
"I never dreamed that this little 'handmaid' protest we were doing would change my life," she said. "When we had that big win with Doug Jones, it was like, 'Oh, we can do it!' You know, the little things we were doing helped bring about that win."
She decided to run for office herself, seeking a a seat on the Baldwin County Commission as part of a wave of new Democratic candidates challenging the local Republican power structure.
Brown is one of nine Democrats — five of them women — now running for office in a county where the party hasn't had local candidates on the ballot in more than a decade.
"I decided to run because I want to be the change, not just talk about being the change," she declared.
It's part of a trend seen nationwide as more women jump into political races to make their voices heard. According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, so far this year 233 women have filed to run for U.S. Senate, House and governors races, and another 350 are considered likely to file soon — numbers that would break records.
But the newly energized Democrats in Alabama have their work cut out for them. Alabama is one of the reddest of red states, giving President Trump 62.9 percent of the vote in 2016.
"To be blue here in sea of red, you are seriously outnumbered. It takes a lot of conversation, a lot of relationship building, to show we're not really all that different," Brown said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbsn-originals-grassroots-in-alabama-emerging-womens-movement/
Record number of black women are candidates in Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It's an unlikely location for a political uprising: A onetime drug rehab center in an office park, where metal bars still line the windows and the hum from the nearby I-20/I-59 overpass is constant.
But it is here that Jameria Moore, a 49-year-old attorney, launched her campaign for a judgeship on the Jefferson County Probate Court. She is one of about three dozen African-American women who are running for office as Democrats across deep-red Alabama.
It's an unprecedented number, according to party officials. Many, like Moore, are running for the first time. And many, like Moore, say Democrat Doug Jones' unexpected Senate victory in December inspired them to take a chance.
But there's more to this wave of black women candidates than that.
"It's so important that we step up, that we show the nation that we can lead," Moore told NBC News in a recent interview, as a small team of volunteers bustled about her law office and prepared for the campaign ahead. "That, here in Alabama, we're ready to lead our state into the future."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/record-number-black-women-are-candidates-alabama-n857576
Cambridge Analytica Sent Foreigners for U.S. Campaigns
“Cambridge Analytica dispatched dozens of non-U.S. citizens to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to Republican candidates in 2014, according to three former workers for the data firm, even as an attorney warned executives to abide by U.S. laws limiting foreign involvement in elections,” the Washington Post reports.
Said one: “We knew that everything was not above board, but we weren’t too concerned about it.”
https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/25/cambridge-analytica-sent-foreigners-to-advise-u-s-campaigns/
If youre feeling sorry for Nelania tonight
Remember that she also questioned President Obama’s citizenship during her husband’s birthed campaign.
Trump: Lawyers are dying to represent me.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/977872899792089088RNC sinks nearly $300,000 into supposedly safe Arizona special election
PERSONAL NOTE: Find out how you can Dr. Hiral Tipirneni at http://hiralforcongress.comThe RNC has put $281,250 into the special election to replace former Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), “the first financial commitment by either national party in a district that has voted reliably Republican since being drawn in 2011,” the Washington Post reports.
“The RNC declined to comment on the investment, but Arizona’s 8th District was not necessarily seen as a potential Democratic pickup. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won just 37% of the vote in the district — worse than her showing in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, which Democrat Conor Lamb just won in a squeaker.”
https://politicalwire.com/page/2/
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