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HAWAII POLL: Ige leads in governor poll; he's up 19 points from July

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - State Sen. David Ige, the Democratic candidate for governor, holds a 12-point lead over his Republican opponent, former Lieutenant Gov. Duke Aiona, in the latest Hawaii New Now-Honolulu Star-Advertiser Hawaii Poll.The results show a large swing from Ige trailing Aiona over the summer to now being firmly in the lead.The poll, taken between Oct. 11 and 18, show Ige with 47 percent of the vote, followed by Aiona with 35 percent. Former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann, an independent, trails in third place with support of just 12 percent of the people who answered the poll and Libertarian candidate Jeff Davis polled at just one percent. The margin of error is four percent.Ige said he's encouraged by the results, but added: \The poll is just a single snapshot in time and we continue to work hard every day just getting out and meeting people.\The two candidates who are trailing Ige said the only poll that counts is on Election Day.\Polls can be wrong