"The Vote" in PR / Which Way Will it Go? (swimming, title)
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Most polls since September have shown Fortuno as having 5-10 point lead over Garcia Padilla.
Garcia Padilla keeps screwing up by associating with the separatists within his own party (the so called "Soberanistas" ie Cox Alomar, Carmen Yulin, etc) which in turn scares off voters.
The PPD is more or less handing the PNP another victory. They just don't learn from their mistakes. If the PPD ever wants to win elections they need to go back to the days of Munoz Marin, Hernandez Colon, Sila Calderon and the "improved permanent union with the United States" and stop talking about sovereignty.
Indeed. Sovereignty is another way of saying independence in the minds of the locals. And for that association, anything with "sovereignty" in the title will never win.
Which way is the vote leaning, what are the projections... what are the professional guessers saying?
Unfortunately looks like the people will elect the governor who has been in power in most murderous term in PR history. It's not like the People's Democratic Party is that different from the hideous, cursed New Progressive Party, but I guess this means that the island is going nowhere. People has become accustomed with the garbage that has been governing them for the last 30 years.
There are four other parties and I personally like the style of one of the candidates, Rafael Bernabe. Problem is that like here in the U.S. since he is inclined to socialism people quickly associate him with the similar government style as that of Cuba and Venezuela, ignoring there are quite a few socialist countries in Europe doing just fine. Then you have Juan Dalmau who is not bad but is basically a copycat of former Puerto Rican Independence Party leader Ruben Berrios and talks like PR is ready for independence when it is certainly not, and you have three other alternatives, with Rogelio Figueroa being one of them but is extremely naive and dreamy and then there is the one from the Sovereignty Union Movement who is not bad but is basically a wing of the PPD and is not that promising. Nevertheless, Puerto Ricans prefer to have the vomit and the diarrhea governing them, every four years, swimming in the same ocean of excrement they have swum in the last 30 years.
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