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Community => Politics and Government => Topic started by: Random Gal on November 07, 2012, 04:05:02 am
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Link to story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/puerto-rico-votes-on-whether-to-change-relationship-with-us-elects-governor-and-legislators/2012/11/06/d87278ae-288b-11e2-aaa5-ac786110c486_story.html)
tl;dr: Puerto Rico votes for statehood, Obama supports it, and it's now up to Congress to approve.
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Yes! Bust out the awesome circle-starred flags!
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Link to story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/puerto-rico-votes-on-whether-to-change-relationship-with-us-elects-governor-and-legislators/2012/11/06/d87278ae-288b-11e2-aaa5-ac786110c486_story.html)
tl;dr: Puerto Rico votes for statehood, Obama supports it, and it's now up to Congress to approve.
Hoo boy...
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3 million new taxpayers is rather persuasive to Washington's men in suits.
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Inb4 twitters of
"IT'S 50 NOT 51! #KeepTradition"
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I also predict another huge racist whinefest about "great, now even more Latinos can vote."
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3 million new taxpayers is rather persuasive to Washington's men in suits.
Unfortunately, some of those men in suits aren't exactly keen on giving more Latinos the opportunity to vote in presidential and congressional elections.
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3 million new taxpayers is rather persuasive to Washington's men in suits.
Unfortunately, some of those men in suits aren't exactly keen on giving more Latinos the opportunity to vote in presidential and congressional elections.
Well all know "some of those men" are the GOP. Puerto Rico would add 3 extra Democratic Senate seats. On top of it all, Puerto Rico's official language is Spanish (and English), which would make the more racists member of Congress go berserk.
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The GOP are fucked either way. Either they:
A) vote for statehood, and risk giving the Democrats 3 free electoral votes
B) vote against statehood, pissing off Hispanic voters in the US even more than they already have
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I also predict another huge racist whinefest about "great, now even more Latinos can vote."
Yep, unfortunately.
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Awesome. Suppose Hawaii will be jealous that they're not the only island state anymore?
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Hard to say since Puerto Rico often votes Republican but on the other hand they were the one's against statehood (is that right) so yeah
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Won't happen. Republicans fear anything that's not white thinking they'll vote democrat
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The GOP are fucked either way. Either they:
A) vote for statehood, and risk giving the Democrats 3 free electoral votes
B) vote against statehood, pissing off Hispanic voters in the US even more than they already have
I don't think you understand the acrimony between Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics....
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Won't happen. Republicans fear anything that's not white thinking they'll vote democrat
From last night, thanks To Bill O'Reilly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrbL_EZS15k
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Awesome. Suppose Hawaii will be jealous that they're not the only island state anymore?
A lot of people in Hawaii aren't exactly happy to be a state in the first place...
Disclaimer: I realize that post above was mostly joking. Just felt like pointing out that Texas isn't the only state wanting to secede.
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It's nice of Bill to continue sharing his insights. I was afraid he might reluctant after his observation on tides.
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I'd personally like to see Puerto Rico as a state mostly because they aren't ever going to go independent, but they are large enough to do so (Unlike say Guam). Just hanging out as a commonwealth feels really... weird to me.
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Won't happen. Republicans fear anything that's not white thinking they'll vote democrat
From last night, thanks To Bill O'Reilly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrbL_EZS15k
"Conservatives, on the other hand, have never had a preferred policy."
I mean, this is just flat out racism.
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Can we trade Texas for Puerto Rico? I think having a nice round 50 states is nice and well we don't really need Texas....
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Can we trade Texas for Puerto Rico? I think having a nice round 50 states is nice and well we don't really need Texas....
Just merge the two Dakotas together.
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Can we trade Texas for Puerto Rico? I think having a nice round 50 states is nice and well we don't really need Texas....
Just merge the two Dakotas together.
You're missing the important part.
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The GOP are fucked either way. Either they:
A) vote for statehood, and risk giving the Democrats 3 free electoral votes
B) vote against statehood, pissing off Hispanic voters in the US even more than they already have
^this.
Ironbite-Purto Rico really put the GOP between a rock and an even harder place.
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My pick: the next Democratic presidential candidate will be either a not-Hillary woman, a Hispanic from Florida or anyone-but-Biden.
The Republicans will pick Chris Christie or perhaps Rock Santorum, lose, and be even moar butthurt. Presuming Obama doesn't drive everybody into double-dip recession with the stupid self-imposed fiscal cliff thing, unemployment will trend down until full employment and the next election will be fought on morning in America.
Them's my picks.
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I'm rooting for Elizabeth Warren 2016. It just feels so right.
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I'm rooting for Elizabeth Warren 2016. It just feels so right.
YES PLEASE
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I'm rooting for Elizabeth Warren 2016. It just feels so right.
YES PLEASE
If they nominated Martin O'Malley, it would go down to the wire.
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I don't give a crap, I'll probably vote 3rd party again.
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This is the Puerto Rico thread, not the 2016 Election thread. Please stay on topic.
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Can we trade Texas for Puerto Rico? I think having a nice round 50 states is nice and well we don't really need Texas....
But I don't wanna live in a bigger rat's shithole of a state than it is now.