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It will be solidly democrat. ½ of NPP are democrats plus 100% of PDP are too. It will be about 75% democrat, 20% republican, and 5% independents. In Florida's Osceola and Orange counties, which have a large proportion of recently arrived Puerto Ricans voted heavily for Obama. Almost all of the 1st generation Puerto Ricans in the mainland that I know voted for Obama.
The Puerto Rico Democrats are socially conservative, so I don't know how well they'd fit in with the liberal hippie West Coast type Democrats that rule the roost these days. Puerto Rico Dems are more similar to the old Upper Midwest Democrats, socially conservative economically liberal/pro-labor (which were my previous stances before 2010)
Of all the people I know in PR (these include Evangelical Christians), not one of them liked Mitt Romney over Obama. Not one. People's votes don't always reflect their core beliefs or social circles; people can debate me all day on this, but PR is solid Democrat. Punto.
I'm not up on how this works, why would this occur? Would you explain? Thanks
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.
the US can't afford to drop texas, maybe south carolina or one of the other southern welfare states
Now i'm confused arent those southern states red and therefore Republican and arent the Republicans the ones who work in this country as opposed to those in the blue states are mostly Democrat and by default the entitlement class who doesnt work and just sits around getting everything for free?
This might be comparing apples to oranges, since I'll compare 2008 to 2012, but it is the closest thing that I could find.
In 2008, there were Democrat primaries in PR, the main candidates being Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. A total of 387,299 people voted in that primary.
In 2012 there were Republican primaries in PR, the main candidates being Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. A total of 128,834 voted then.
So, in 2008, three times as many people voted in the Democrat primaries than they did in the 2012 Republican primaries.
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Forget PR
