Would the state of Puerto Rico be republican or democrat?

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PR will be solid democrat. It will be a really good experiment for repubs to see how they approach the Hispanic vote. In PR people tend to be very socially conservative except when it comes to death penalty. It could be fertile ground for GOP but at the beginning it will be a blue state.

[chirack]

Originally Posted by Andros 1337

The U.S. Constitution sets a fixed number of seats in the House of Representatives to 435. Using TUBW's estimate, there would only be a net gain of two electoral votes for the Democrats (assuming Puerto Rico becomes a solid blue state and all the states that lose representatives are solid blue states) due to the two additional Senate seats allocated for Puerto Rico. Two electoral votes won't have much of an impact on presidential elections.

Actually the number of seats is fixed by law. It was capped at 435 so you would need to change that law or redistribute the reps. The electorial votes would be control by state law(i.e. the state is given X number, how it allots them is by state law..almost all alot the EC as a whole but two states have a system of spliting the votes(i.e. which ever candidate wins the rep. desitrict wins that vote and the person with most votes gets the remaining 2). It would have more than two as the min number of EC votes is 3.

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Originally Posted by chirack

Actually the number of seats is fixed by law. It was capped at 435 so you would need to change that law or redistribute the reps. The electorial votes would be control by state law(i.e. the state is given X number, how it allots them is by state law..almost all alot the EC as a whole but two states have a system of spliting the votes(i.e. which ever candidate wins the rep. desitrict wins that vote and the person with most votes gets the remaining 2). It would have more than two as the min number of EC votes is 3.

You are misunderstanding. I didn't say that Puerto Rico would have two electoral votes; I said there would only be a net gain of two electoral votes for the Democrats assuming Puerto Rico becomes a solid blue state, as most likely the states that will lose representatives (and thus electoral votes) would be the major solid blue states. That net gain of two electoral votes would come from the two additional senators representing Puerto Rico.