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The road to Puerto Rico

Aziz P

Seems the Dems are going to have a brokered convention, unless someone wins Puerto Rico in a big way.

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zach.:

Clinton has a head start in the unincorporated territory vote as she won a commanding victory in American Samoa!

2.8.2008 5:46pm

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Jack G (mail) (www):

Well, we won Puerto Rico once and have never been able to give it back.

So turnabout is fair play.

2.8.2008 6:51pm

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Sean Golden (mail) (www):

All I can think after reading that is "Puerto Rico has 55 delegates!? Are you kidding me?

2.8.2008 9:19pm

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Dean Esmay:

Well they do have a population of about 3.5 million, which is bigger than a lot of states. And political parties can assign delegates however they like, including to non-states, but they mostly do it proportional to population.

2.8.2008 11:12pm

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La Ventanita (mail) (www):

Sean as a Puertorrican I'm just as surprised as you that the island, smaller than Rhode Island, has 55 delegates.

As far as the nomination, Obama will have to campaign really hard. First, people in Puerto Rico love the Clintons. I really don't know why since it was under Bill that the 936 was abolished. Secondly, and there is no easy way to say this, is racism. People in PR have no affinity with a Black candidate, and might even be considered somewhat racist.

It will be very interesting to see how this turns out.

2.11.2008 11:22pm

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