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GOP lawmaker may hold onto Hawaii seat

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But reflecting the makeup of his district, Mr. Djou has taken a more moderate line of President Obama's health care overhaul law. He told voters that he favors repeal of the law, but added that repeal was not "realistic" in the short term and that he, instead, would work to amend some of its major provisions.

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David Eldridge

David Eldridge

David Eldridge joined The Washington Times in 1999 and over the next seven years helped lead the paper's coverage of regional politics and government, Sept. 11, and the sniper attacks of 2002. In 2006, he was named managing editor of the paper's website. He came to The Times from the Telegraph in North Platte, Neb., where he served as executive ...

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carlor says:

2 hours, 56 minutes ago

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Don't forget, too, that there has there has probably never been a more consequential governor's race than this one in Hawaii, when you consider that the AVERAGE age of the state's delegation in the US Senate, both Democrats, is 86 years old.

Indeed, this is already the oldest Senate in history, and there has never previously been a time that the body has had 3 Senators over the age of 86.

gp698 says:

3 hours, 47 minutes ago

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could it be that reason has finally surf..iced in the islands? could it be that leaving the U.S. doesn't look so hot when it means that they would really be alone out there in the big blue sea? because if they succeed from the Union, they will really be,
on their own! we don't have the money to allow them to feed of the public teet any longer. not if they aren't even part of the country anymore! and you can bet, that's just what the islanders want to do! anything they want and WE PAY THE BILL! NUTS ON THAT! those days are over and they can thank their "hero" the messiah, for ALL OF IT! so they better vote in somebody that actually knows how to be honest! the marxists had a run at it and you see the results. time for the good guys to give it a try!

oh dear says:

21 hours, 56 minutes ago

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Great news.

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