Perhaps not, but she's opted to help block national democratic elections in our country and instead support our reliance on the undemocratic mechanism (and sometimes nightmare) that is the Electoral College. Both houses of Hawaii's legislature had voted for the National Popular Vote initiative - but she vetoed the measure. Interestingly, she also would seem to have killed the only chance that Hawaii's electoral votes would go to a president of her party in the near future. Hawaii is very "Blue". While John Kerry's winning margin there was much smaller than those posted by Al Gore and Bill Clinton, the state has only voted for the Republican nominee for president twice - in 1972 and 1984.
Posted by armand at April 24, 2007 09:54 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics