Hawaii Mayoral Elections

Yesterday, Saturday, Hawaii voters elected new mayors for Honolulu, the Big Island, and Kaua'i as well as other officials.  An article in the Honolulu Advertiser about Board of Education election results makes a forecast for the presidential election: the article is called "Early results show experience trumps change."  According to this article, Board of Education candidates who ran on on a platform of change lost to candidates who ran on experience.  Many of these experienced candidates were also the incumbents, and Hawaiians have a tendency to vote for incumbents, so the results are not too surprising.