Unless you live in Hawaii, you probably have no idea who he is. But if you follow politics, you’ll soon be hearing the name a lot more.

First, to be clear, Honolulu Councilman Charles Djou (R) has an extremely uphill battle for the seat in Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District. The district is heavily Democrat as far as voters go, and it’s been about two decades since a Republican held the seat.

But thanks to Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie, who is now running for Governor, the seat is vacant. There are a few things in play that could help Djou pull off an upset in the race.

First, Djou faces no primary challengers, and the Democrats are squaring off for a bruising three way fight between Ed Case, Colleen Hanabusa, and Mike Gabbard.

Many pundits and analysts believe even more Democrats will soon join the fight for the Democrat side of the ticket, forcing a costly primary election that could give Djou a healthy upper hand.

Second, as in the case of Massachusetts and Scott Brown, the political environment is absolutely toxic for Democrats. In 2008 the electorate voted for “change,” but were instead handed more of the same. A lot more of the same, in fact.

The tone seems to be one that suggests Democrats had an opportunity to prove their ability to actually change the rot in Washington, but instead they stunk it up even more.

Four weeks out from the special election on MA, everyone was saying the race was a lost cause for Republicans. This particular election has significant similarities to the Special Race in MA, and we believe it could result in a similar outcome.

I’m not sure I’m witnessing what I’m witnessing? I mean, I planned to take a trip to Boston to bare witness to an historically close race… wherein the Republican up-start actually had a chance of coming within 9 or 10 points of the already anointed successor to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.

Then came the break between Christmas and New Years… the Scott Brown campaign ran an ad in which the late, great, John F, Kennedy transformed into Scott Brown while talking about taxes and jobs…

Can you say “Game Changer?” in my opinion that ad was a huge game changer and the beginning of the momentum shift…

After the JFK ad — suddenly Martha Coakley had to start campaigning… and that, it turns out, was her greatest downfall!

Martha Coakley is a horrible candidate, and a much worse campaigner, as it turns out… the level of debate she’s shown, so far, is simply to call her opponent names, make over the top assertions, and flat out lie and distort Scott Browns record.

What struck me upon arriving here in Bean-`town was the level of awareness and the outright disdain for the status-quo (I can haz Kennedy’s seat) BS-Democrat politician that thought she could walk into the Senate seat without knowing that terrorists were still in Afghanistan!

The people on the street are jut not having it!

The folks I’ve met over the last couple of days keep telling me that this is historic, not in the Obama – everything has a historic pressing ring to it, but most of these people have never had the chance to vote their conscious for this seat – as they felt they owed their vote to a legacy… I don’t agree with that — but I understand it.

With the death of Teddy Kennedy, came a new day and a new dawn for which many here in Mass. say “is an opportunity to let our voices be heard” and being heard is exactly what their voices are…

Yesterday I attended a Scott Brown scheduled stop at a bar called Tommy Doyle”s down in Cape Cod. The place was packed and hour and a half before the scheduled speech, you should have seen the tears in people’s eyes… older generations looking out at all the young people in the bar/restaurant with a passionate mission I’ve never encountered in my short lifetime.

It was never more obvious to me, in the moment, how much I loved my country and how much my fellow countrymen loved liberty and freedom.

I know it sounds sappy… but shaking an old mans hand and having him tell you that as a Californian you can appreciate but never fully understand the magnitude of what was happening in his own backyard… was an experience I will keep with me until the day I die.

By the way — they were all Democrats! Well Ok there were a few die hard Republicans but on the Cape… they’re a rare species.

Which now brings me to this ridiculous story, that up until a few weeks ago I would have said was pure fantasy, but here we are:

In an article, well a blog post (let’s be real about it) entitled “Coakley: Scott Brown doesn’t pay for health care for workers” Martha Coakley once again beclownes herself with the following statements:

“We already knew that Scott Brown didn’t want to make health insurance more affordable for Massachusetts families and businesses. Now we learn that he won’t even make health insurance available for his own staff. If he won’t stand up for the people he employs, how could we ever trust him to stand up for us?”

Wow really you mean the temporary staff that at present is kicking your rear? That’s a great talking point Martha… Good luck with that.

It continues with Brown staffer Felix Browne stating the obvious, again for the Coakley camp:

“This is a silly issue. The small group working on the Scott Brown campaign either has existing insurance or were compensated sufficiently to purchase it on their own,”

Seeing a campaign in this kind of disarray really gives hope to those of us who would love to see Scott Brown take the seat.

No one knows what the outcome will be, but one thing is devastatingly clear… The fact that a Republican is this close, to what have otherwise been a walk in the park, is an absolute referendum — not only on the Democrats ability to lead but also the agenda set forth by the Failed Obama White House!