“Charles Djou” on The Daily Caller

The pundits who are trying to spin Tuesday’s election as the result of a simple anti-incumbent mood are not merely wrong; they are actively suppressing the truth. Had this been an anti-incumbent election, there would have been similar defeats on both sides. But a comparison of Democratic versus Republican incumbent defeats presents a stark and inescapable conclusion, particularly in the US House: voters rejected incumbent Democrats but not incumbent Republicans. Fifty Democratic incumbents lost their seats, compared to only two Republican incumbents. The two Republican incumbents who were defeated, Joseph Cao and Charles Djou, were both elected under unusual circumstances in heavily Democratic districts. Cao was elected in November 2008, and Djou was elected in May 2010, so both were just barely incumbents. (more)

A look of the key races in the 50 states: (more)

If there’s one thing worse than being a Democratic incumbent this election cycle, it’s being a Republican that loses this election cycle. (more)

On August 24, the Department of Education (ED) released the list of phase two winners in its Race to the Top (RTT) program. A study released Friday by the non-partisan think tank, American Enterprise Institute, however, says that in some cases, the winning states for rounds one and quite possibly two, made the cut for political reasons and not because they made strides in education reform. (more)

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations and unions can spend on campaign ads. (more)

YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Bill Warner is hardly a naive man. He ran his own engineering firm for three decades, and sold the assets just before the economy tanked. He built his dream home on a majestic hill abutting a national park, back when the housing market was steady. While some neighbors have since been foreclosed upon, Warner is resurfacing his flagstone deck. (more)

Hawaii Republican Rep. Charles Djou became the latest member of Congress to publicly criticize President Obama for not allowing foreign ships into the Gulf of Mexico to help with the clean-up effort of the BP oil spill. (more)

HONOLULU (AP) — Republicans cited Rep.-elect Charles Djou’s victory for a seat long out of their reach as evidence of steadily increasing election-year strength, but Democrats said Sunday the winner’s 40-percent vote share portends a short stay in Congress for him and predicts nothing about the fall. (more)

Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) won the special election in Hawaii’s 1st district tonight. He took 39.5 percent of the vote to 31 percent for state Sen. Colleen Hanabusa and 28 percent for former Rep. Ed Case (D). (more)

Republicans believe they are on the cusp of winning a House special election in Hawaii Saturday, an outcome that would take some of the sting out of a decisive loss suffered in another House special election earlier in the week. (more)

Facing two Democrats in a winner-take all special election, Charles Djou is poised to become the first Republican to represent President Obama’s home district since the 1990s when the mail-in ballots in Hawaii are counted this weekend. (more)

Hawaii voters who haven’t mailed in their special election ballots are running out of time, and the political parties are running hard to sway the late deciders. The latest pitch is — from Democrats who were popular enough to get elected governor — boils down to, ‘Whatever you do, don’t vote for Djou.’ (more)

The DCCC is pulling out of the race to replace ex-Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), effectively ceding the heavily Dem seat to the GOP as intra-party feuding splits the vote. (more)

“The prospect of losing two House seats in back-to-back special elections next month has sparked a vigorous, behind-the-scenes Democratic effort, designed to avoid an outcome that could lead to panic among the rank-and-file and stall the momentum generated by the recent passage of landmark health care legislation,” writes Politico. (more)

Republican House candidate Charles Djou, who the Wall Street Journal profiled yesterday, has released his first television ad. The incredibly spry Djou is campaigning in the special election for Pres. Obama’s hometown seat (HI-1): (more)

Hawaii congressional candidate Charles K. Djou, who aims to become his state’s second Republican ever to serve in the House, says that despite all the tough talk on Iran, the real threat to the country comes from “the nutcase in Pyongyang.” (more)

Billboards in Hawaii are illegal, so candidates for office there have found creative alternatives to display their campaign signs — carefully orchestrated sign wavings during rush hour. (more)

In a sign of just how much the political landscape has changed since November 2008, for the first time in 18 years a Republican is mounting a serious challenge in Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District, which includes Honolulu and the childhood home of President Obama. (more)