A Referendum On Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie?

A Referendum On Gov. Neil Abercrombie?
UNITED STATES - JANUARY 11: Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, during the House Armed Services hearing with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace on President Bush's latest strategy on Iraq, which Bush announced Wednesday evening in a televised speech from The White House. As top Bush administration officials -- including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- trooped to Capitol Hill to defend the president's latest strategy in Iraq, lawmakers from both parties kept up withering attacks on the plan. Supporters of President Bush's deployment of more than 20,000 additional U.S. troops were hard to find. But it was not clear whether Democratic leaders and other critics of his Iraq strategy were prepared to go beyond the adoption of a non-binding resolution of disapproval to an actual cutoff or limitation of war funds. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he expects to win the votes needed to surmount a filibuster against a resolution of disapproval. 'We expect to have 60,' Reid said. 'We have had 12 Republicans who say they oppose the surge.' But voicing opposition is not the same as an actual on-the-record vote. Reid did not name the Republicans he thinks will support a resolution, nor did he say whether he expects to lose any Democratic votes. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)
UNITED STATES - JANUARY 11: Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, during the House Armed Services hearing with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace on President Bush's latest strategy on Iraq, which Bush announced Wednesday evening in a televised speech from The White House. As top Bush administration officials -- including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- trooped to Capitol Hill to defend the president's latest strategy in Iraq, lawmakers from both parties kept up withering attacks on the plan. Supporters of President Bush's deployment of more than 20,000 additional U.S. troops were hard to find. But it was not clear whether Democratic leaders and other critics of his Iraq strategy were prepared to go beyond the adoption of a non-binding resolution of disapproval to an actual cutoff or limitation of war funds. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he expects to win the votes needed to surmount a filibuster against a resolution of disapproval. 'We expect to have 60,' Reid said. 'We have had 12 Republicans who say they oppose the surge.' But voicing opposition is not the same as an actual on-the-record vote. Reid did not name the Republicans he thinks will support a resolution, nor did he say whether he expects to lose any Democratic votes. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)

Governor Ige?

A new Civil Beat Poll suggests that state Sen. David Ige has a shot at unseating Hawaii's incumbent governor, Neil Abercrombie.

Ige and Abercrombie are tied at 37 percent apiece among likely Democratic primary voters, the poll shows.

And more than a quarter of those voters, or 26 percent, say they are unsure of who they'll vote for.

But Ige, a relatively unknown elected official who has thus far raised very little money for the governor's race, should not start measuring the drapes in the Capitol's fifth floor offices.

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