Thank you Neal for the great analysis.  I have to give Djou grudging credit for being a realist.  I thought of him as prone to ignoring reality in order to parrot the National Republican party line.  He opposed the Obama's recovery act  in Congress that we needed badly, and never gave Obama credit for reducing the deficit.  But, he is being realistic about the situation we find ourselves in with rail, even though it hurts him in the polls.  If he could do more to bolster himself on character he might have an issue on which to win, given the problems with the Honolulu Ethics Commission under Caldwell's watch.