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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton poised for a big win in Puerto Rico Sunday.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have both offered plans to solve Puerto Rico's debt crisis. They've invested a roughly equal number of time campaigning there over the past three weeks. But unlike other recent contests where Sanders closed to within striking distance in the final days, leaving the eventual outcome up in the air, few expect the territory to do anything other than deliver a Clinton victory.
There's just too much history with the Clintons, and too many hurdles for Sanders to overcome in a place where the former secretary of state won by a landslide over Barack Obama in 2008.
There's just too much history with the Clintons, and too many hurdles for Sanders to overcome in a place where the former secretary of state won by a landslide over Barack Obama in 2008.
Public polling in the Puerto Rico primary has been essentially nonexistent, so theres no reliable way to gauge whos ahead. But as a former senator from the state with the largest population of Puerto Rican-Americans, she has a much greater degree of familiarity with the territory and its residents than Sanders.
"She has a very good grasp of policy issues in Puerto Rico and has for a very long time, particularly when she was a senator from New York," said Roberto Prats, the chairman of the Puerto Rico Democratic Party and a Clinton supporter. "We have a sizable population of Puerto Ricans in New York and New York state and she was very active in the community as well."
That's an advantage against Sanders, whose home state of Vermont has one of the smallest populations of Puerto Rican-Americans in the nation.
"She has a very good grasp of policy issues in Puerto Rico and has for a very long time, particularly when she was a senator from New York," said Roberto Prats, the chairman of the Puerto Rico Democratic Party and a Clinton supporter. "We have a sizable population of Puerto Ricans in New York and New York state and she was very active in the community as well."
That's an advantage against Sanders, whose home state of Vermont has one of the smallest populations of Puerto Rican-Americans in the nation.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-clinton-puerto-rico-primary-delegates-223883
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I suspect something like a 60-40 win for Madam Nominee.
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Clinton poised for a big win in Puerto Rico Sunday. (Original Post)
DCBob
Jun 2016
OP
I thought it was the Virgin Islands today and Puerto Rico tomorrow. It doesn't really matter, just puts her closer to that delegate total...
I will fix that,.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)3. Well of course she is ...since irregularities are rampant in PR right now
Vattel
(9,289 posts)4. But the best of Puerto Ricans prefer Bernie.
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ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)6. K&R nt