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In 2008, Barack Obama won by an overwhelming 45-point lead: 72% for the Democrat and 27% for Republican John McCain. Hawaii is the only actual state that gave either candidate more than 70% of the vote. Obama again won Hawaii by a large margin in 2012, suffering only a small swing against him, winning 71% to 28% for Republican Mitt Romney.
In the 1992 presidential election, the independent candidate Ross Perot received the highest percentage of vote share (14.22%) [9] ever won by a third-party candidate in Hawaii. In the 2016 presidential election, a faithless elector [a] pledged to the Democratic Party instead voted for Bernie Sanders for president and Elizabeth Warren for vice ...
The Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi was formed on April 30, 1900, by supporters of the queen in the wake of a plague quarantine in Honolulu.The meeting brought together five men: John H. Wilson, son of Marshal of the Kingdom Charles B. Wilson; John S. McGrew, a doctor and supporter of Kalākaua; Charles J. McCarthy, a saloon owner and former Honolulu Rifle; David Kawānanakoa, prince of the House ...
Left Coast is a political expression that implies that the West Coast of the United States leans politically to the left.The implication is that with the exception of Alaska, the states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii tend to vote for the Democratic Party, particularly in Coastal California, the Eugene and Portland metropolitan areas in Oregon, the Puget Sound region in ...
Hawaii Democrats will hold a presidential preference vote on Wednesday as President Joe Biden moves closer to securing the delegates needed to clinch nomination for a second term in the White House.
Biden won with 66% of the vote in a contest in which only 1,563 votes were cast, according to the Hawaii Democratic Party. Twenty-nine percent of voters chose “Uncommitted.”
Hawaii was the first state in the 2020 election cycle to exceed the voter turnout in 2016, causing the state to attract attention as a representation of an overall trend in increased early voting during the general election. [4] Biden won Hawaii with 63.7% of the vote, with a 29.5% margin over Trump, who earned 34.3%.
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono and the state's incumbent congressional representatives are favored to win Saturday's Democratic Party's primaries in Hawaii. Hawaii is a vote-by-mail state. Ballots must be ...