Crowds flock to Democratic caucus
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 08:30PM 
Unprecedented numbers of people turned out Tuesday for the Democratic Presidential caucus at the Pahoa Community Center where the state's 4th House District residents made their preferences known.
Barack Obama's candidacy clearly energized the crowd and party leaders were walking around saying how exciting it all is amid the buzz that earlier in the day the Hawaii-born Obama had won the Wisconsin primary campaign over rival Hillary Clinton.
Traffic into Pahoa was bumper-to-bumper and crawling along at 6:30 p.m. and long, thick lines for voter registration snaked out of the community center toward the street. Councilwoman Emily Naeole said the number of people appeared much larger than when she had 900 people out for one of her fund raisers at the Community Center.
One wag said the last time this many Punatics were all in once place was probably at Haight-Ashbury.
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It also looks, from the pix, as if virtually all the voters were Hauli. Which was also pretty much the case in my precinct.