HAWAII
      Nov. 2, 2010 U.S. Senate

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+Dan Inouye (D) i
 		277,228
 		74.91%
Cam Cavasso (R)
 		79,939
 		21.60%
Jim Brewer (G)
 		7,762
 2.10%
Lloyd Jeffrey Mallan (L)
 		2,957
 		0.80%
Jeff Jarrett (N)
 		2,208
 0.60%

370,094
Also 14,689 blank votes and 192 over votes.
Plurality: 197,289 votes (53.31 percentage points).
 State of Hawaii Office of Elections



Notes:  U.S. Sen. Dan Inouye (D), first elected in 1962, had little difficulty winning a ninth term, trouncing financial advisor and former state Rep. Cam Cavasso (R) and three other candidates. 

Primaries took place on Sept. 18.  Inouye easily defeated Andy Woerner.  Cavasso, who was also the 2004 Republican nominee against Inouye, easily defeated John Roco and Eddie Pirkowski.

A decorated World War II veteran, Inouye was first elected to office in 1954 as a member of the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives.  Starting in 2009 he chaired the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee.  In June 2010, following the death of Sen. Robert Byrd (WV), he became Senate President pro tem, and in September he celebrated his 86th birthday. 

The race was financially non-competitive.  Open Secrets reports the Inouye campaign spent $5.7 million and finished with cash on hand of $1.3 million compared to $266,470 spent by the Cavasso campaign (>).


Campaign Manager:
Dan Inouye:  Linda Chu Takayama
Experience includes deputy director of the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, 1994-95.  Insurance Commissioner for the State of Hawaii, 1991-94.  Chief of staff in the U.S. Senate Office of Sergeant at Arms, 1986-91.   J.D. from George Mason University Law School, 1986; B.A. in journalism from University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1974.


 








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