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Honolulu Mayoral Candidates Spend Day Campaigning Print E-mail
Written by Terry Hunter - thunter@kgmb9.com   
September 20, 2008 06:18 PM

 
On Oahu, the biggest primary race is for Honolulu mayor. Mufi Hannemann believes he has a good chance of getting fifty percent of the votes cast plus one to win the election outright.

But anti-rail candidates Ann Kobayashi and Panos Prevedouros think they have enough support to block him. All three spent much of this final day campaigning.

Mayor Hannemann may be the front runner who expects to take it all tonight, but he's not letting up.

Saturday, he appeared in neighborhoods across the island from Hawaii Kai to Waianae.

"I think what has really come to the forefront in the closing part of the campaign is the economy is starting to turn south," Hannemann said. "And what we're hearing from more and more people is that you gotta have somebody's who's experienced, who's been on the job, who's been doing a good job and knows how to deal with the economy."

City council member Ann Kobayashi started waving a sign in Manoa at 6:30 this morning.

"You know I think people feel that there's hope, now, that there's hope that maybe there won't have a steel on steel train, that there can be change," Kobayashi said.

Kobayashi doesn't have any predictions about tonight's vote count. But professor Panos Prevedouros does.

"I think I have a very, very small chance of actually becoming the mayor tonight," Prevedouros said. "I think the incumbent mayor has a better chance of continuing on his job. However, I think I have very good chances of coming in second, and there is a fifty-fifty chance that the incumbent will not make it outright tonight."

Ann Kobayashi and and Panos Prevedouros are facing long odds in this primary election. Both have been in the race for only a few months and neither has the kind of campaign funds that the mayor enjoys.

Plus, the apparently light voter turnout would seem to favor the incumbent. Still, there is at least the possibility of preventing the mayor from getting 50 percent of the votes plus one, thus forcing a runoff election against one of them in November.


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Last Updated ( November 03, 2008 11:06 PM )
 

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Mayor, City and County of Honolulu
CandidateVotesPercentPrecincts
HANNEMANN, Mufi172,79857.9%212 of 212
KOBAYASHI, Ann H.125,62642.1%212 of 212
Mayor, County of Kauai (Special Vacancy)
CandidateVotesPercentPrecincts
CARVALHO, Bernard P., Jr.15,85759.73%17 of 17
YUKIMURA, JoAnn A.10,69140.27%17 of 17
Mayor, County of Hawaii
CandidateVotesPercentPrecincts
KENOI, Billy37,36257.6%67 of 67
PILAGO, K. Angel27,50542.4%67 of 67
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