Discussion: Hillary Clinton Projected To Win Puerto Rico Democratic Primary

Bernie Bros denounce the pre-known fact that the people of Puerto Rico are able to vote in a primary but not in the General Election in 5, 4, 3, 2…

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ToTally fixed That Puerto ricaNs can’t vote in the General election. Also primary is rigged. Why not have a more inclusive caucus? BecaUse the EstabisHment is AfraiD of feeling the Bern!!!111one111!!111!!!

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27 delegates to go.

NJ primary will clinch it!

We have our nominee! HRC!

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The real question is, will she get 40 or 50 more delegates tonight. Either way, she only needs about 200 more pledged delegates to get a majority (without the super delegates). If she only got about 42% of the vote in California, and lost every other state on Tuesday by 100%, she would still end up with a majority of the pledged delegates. Anyone who thinks this is still a contest is completely detached from reality; nothing more.

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Yep, very close now. Keep those eyes to yourself, Bernie!

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Where are you getting your numbers, azjude? I’m looking at election projection’s site and I calculate that HRC still needs 49 (but fully admit that there may be other factors that this site doesn’t take into account)

Whatever the number, it will be over when the polls close in NJ BUT I really hope the CA supporters still turn out to vote because otherwise… Rigged! Bernmentum! All the way to the convention! Polling better than Trump!, etc. ad nauseam.

ETA: Never mind, @yail_bloor answered and provided pictures, too! :wink:

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On DailyKos there is a controversy going. Puerto Rico apparently had “only” 423 polling places for their Primary, which besides US Democrat Presidential, includes the local political party primaries. The Island is 100 plus length miles by 35 miles width. The explanation is that the local parties and electoral commission do not have sufficient funds to open more school polling places. However, someone in the local Democrat party said it was because Sanders only had 423 volunteers to be present when each paper ballot was counted at each polling place. So, there is a raging debate about whether this was unfair or a lie or deliberate or whatever. Folks in PR show up and vote, and folks today were lined up outside the polling places well before 8 AM and waited in line for hours all through the day to vote. I am following the results in El Nuevo Dia newspaper on line which mentions delays but is unaware of the controversy raging on DailyKos.

“local Democrat party”?

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MSNBC: Sanders Campaign Requested Reduction in Number of Polling Places in Puerto Rico

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Just a few more days until Tad Devine and Weaver are out of work.

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There’s always money in the banana stand.

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Still am surprised that Bernie didn’t just go “maximum-audacity” and simply - in a 500 decibel voice flat out declare himself the winner of the spirit of the nominating process - dismissively say

"yeah, sure she has more delegates, but - LOOK AT WHAT I’VE ACCOMPLISHED
… LOOK AT ME… LOOK AT ME… I AM THE ESSENCE OF A WINNER!"

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That’s the best new!

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HA! And Bernie just decided to burn it to the ground anyway because reasons…

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The ever-nearer sounds of nails in coffins.

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Come back to those that love you Bernie! Leave the dark side and support the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. The fat lady has sung… its over!

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LOOK AT ME . . . LOOK AT ME . . . I’m agreeing with your post!

Yeah, sorry for not clarifying. In Puerto Rico, the LOCAL political parties are the PPD (Popular Democratic Party), which was founded by Luis Munoz Marin and has traditionally invented and promoted the current Commonwealth status. The PIP is the Puerto Rican Independence Party. The PNP is the Partido Nuevo Progresista which was a spin off that replaced the post WW2 Statehood Party in about 1965. There is also the PSP, the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. The PPD was traditionally affiliated with the national Democratic Party, since Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and the last appointed PR Governor, Rexford Guy Tugwell, supported Luis Munoz Marin (the first elected Governor). The Statehood/ PNP was traditionally affiliated with the Republican Party because the founder of the PR Republican Party, a black doctor educated at the U of Michigan named Jose Celso Barbosa, believed that Statehood would better guaranty racial equality. However, in 1975, when Jimmy Carter won the Democratic nomination, a PNP politician got on board with him very early while the PPD establishment didnt think he would ever win the nomination. So local political party affiliation with the national Democratic Party got crossed over and hybrid-messy for about 30 years. But to get back to your question, unlike in the 50 States, the national Democratic Party is not one of the local political parties. Puerto Rico residents do not vote in the national General Election. Hope that clarifies some.

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Oh, come on now. If Bernie wins 154% of the remaining pledged delegates, plus convinces the super delegates he calls evil to pick him over the person with 300 more pledged delegates and over 3 million more votes, then he still stands a chance to win this thing. Or so I’m told by anonymous assholes on Twitter.

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