Punans turn out for Bernie

[pahoated]

Seems like the presidential campaign is about Hawaii by default. OK, there was no big Trump rally in Puna, despite a lot of the haole transplants being far right wingers. It needs to be addressed, there was this big Republican Tea Party fanaticism here a few years ago. It peaked, popped and imploded. Same way with all the emotion filled protesting, peaks, pops, implodes, back to BAU. Just because it is emotion hyperdriven on PW doesn't indicate it means squat in the "outside" world. Yes, Puna is around 45,000 (including children, elderly, mentally disabled, felons, etc. that can't vote) but the past elections show about 2,000 voting voters. Also, using the general population number as some kind of competition with the Hilo area is a silly effort. Just because Puna always sides with the organic appearing underdog has little to do with final results.

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