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Not-So-Super Sunday in Puerto Rico?Posted on May 30, 2008After 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.
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By geoffspear, June 2, 2008 at 8:52 am Link to this comment
“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.
Report thisBy i,Q, June 1, 2008 at 1:53 pm Link to this comment
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.
Report thisBy Maezeppa, May 30, 2008 at 10:29 pm Link to this comment
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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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