Puerto Rico Primary

by: Daniel De Groot

Sun Jun 01, 2008 at 12:11


CNN talking head reporting low turn out, and speculating that many voters there feel disenfranchised and don't think voting in the primary really makes up for being disenfranchised in the general.

Not a lot of polling here but Clinton's ahead 59-40.

Electoral-Vote has a good run down on the island.  He's predicting 31C, 24O for the 55 pledged delegates at stake today.  He also figured there would be large turn out, so the CNN report might call his predictions into question.

What do you think?

Update, 15:01 EST - CNN calls it for Clinton "by a wide margin."  Exit polling seems to indicate support of Bill Clinton and support of statehood were big drivers in support of Hillary.

Daniel De Groot :: Puerto Rico Primary

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puerto rico! (0.00 / 0)
I got primary fever! Or maybe it's burnout.  

Puerto Rico an apply for state hood (0.00 / 0)
if it wants to be enfranchised.  

Michael Bloomberg, prince of corporate welfare

sure (0.00 / 0)
Where does that leave DC?

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It's not a black box (0.00 / 0)
Puerto Rico is populated by many individuals.  It's not unreasonable to think that some of those individuals may ardently desire statehood but do not have sufficient support for it to be possible.  Is there no reason to think they might experience some feelings of disenfranchisement and thus be less keen on playing a mostly insignificant role in a contest they will have no ability to affect come November?

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even more complicated (0.00 / 0)
I only know a little, but...
there is a pro-statehood group, but I believe it is the smallest;
there are nationalists, for whom statehood is the worst possible status because it closes off nationhood definitively;
there are also people who like the commonwealth because it supports a certain number of vested interests.

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31C - 24 O (0.00 / 0)
Seems like the consensus. I'll go with 30-25 just to be different :)

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