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Posted on May 30, 2008

After some seriously suspenseful primaries earlier in the year, the general feeling about Sunday’s Democratic presidential primary in Puerto Rico is far less ... energized, let’s say. In fact, local officials are predicting that a substantial percentage of Puerto Rican voters won’t even show up at the polls.


AP via My Way News:

Local elections routinely attract 80 percent of voters. And the Democratic primary is open to all registered voters of whatever party, because Puerto Rico doesn’t register voters by party. Nevertheless, electoral officials predict fewer than 25 percent of the 2.3 million registered voters will turn out for Sunday’s primary.

This, despite the sizable prize of 55 delegates at stake, more than are offered in Montana and South Dakota combined in the last two primaries of the year, on Tuesday.

Islanders typically are reluctant to become entangled in mainland politics and now that most of the suspense is gone, it’s questionable whether the forecast for 500,000 Puerto Ricans to vote will hold up.

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By geoffspear, June 2, 2008 at 11:52 am #

“reluctant to become entangled in mainland politics”?  Maybe they realize that their votes in the primary won’t be significant because Obama’s already won, and following the campaign at all is a waste of their time because while their primary votes only too late to matter, their general election votes literally have no impact at all because they’ve got no Electoral College votes. 

The real story here is that in Puerto Rico, unlike in the rest of America, people actually turn out for local elections.

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By i,Q, June 1, 2008 at 4:53 pm #

Clinton’s camp are the ones making the popular vote argument. As a matter of fact, Clinton&Co;are the ones exercising the strategy of your comment title.

Why can’t the campaign turn out more voters in PR? Because Puerto Ricans, like the rest of the sane world, can see that there is only one way for HRC to win, and that can only be to convince superdelegates to come out against the pledged delegate results.

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By Maezeppa, May 31, 2008 at 1:29 am #
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I see.  Since Clinton is expected to slaughter Obama suddenly “turnout” becomes the story.  Nice.  Will Eugene Robinson write it up?

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