In Case You Missed It Last Night

A Republican won the special election in HI-1, Obama's "hometown":

Republicans scored a midterm election victory Saturday when Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou won a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Obama grew up — the latest triumph for the GOP as it looks to take back control of Congress.

Djou’s victory was a blow to Obama and other Democrats who could not rally around a candidate and find away to win a congressional race that should have been a cakewalk. The seat had been held by a Democrat for nearly 20 years and is located in the district where Obama was born and spent most of his childhood.
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Republicans see the victory as a powerful statement about their momentum heading into November. They already sent a Republican to the U.S. Senate to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts — a place that was once thought to be the most hostile of territories for the GOP. Now Republicans can say they won a congressional seat in the former backyard of the president and in a state that gave Obama 72 percent of the vote two years ago.

This is still an uphill fight. Two Democrats who refused to cooperate with each other or the party split the vote on their side and thus gave the win to the Republicans. This fall there will be only one Democrat facing Congressman Djou, so keeping the seat in the next Congress will be difficult.

However, there's power in incumbency (at least for Republicans) and he just might pull it off.

The real question is whether Los Angeles and San Francisco will boycott Hawaii for electing a Republican?