THANK YOU!!! That’s what I was about to comment on. Also what the hell is “la futura de la Florida,” it should be “El futuro de Florida.”
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The Democratic candidates need to do way more than say they’re better than the other guy. Do the Dems have plans that will help people or not?
It’s platitudes over policies that got us into this mess. That isn’t what’s going to get us out.
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Mayor Carmen Yulia Cruz has been solid in her support of Nelson. Even the much more conservative Gov Rossello supported Gwen Graham in the Gov race. The signals have been sent by the important politicians in PR. Puerto Ricans and Latinos in general are going to vote Democratic because it’s about an existential crisis. Trump is making things worse for his side (and better for Team Blue) when he continues to praise his gov’t’s PR response. It angers me to no end and I’m sure it upsets a lot of Latino voters.
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Not only that but to remind voters what a terrible job the Rethugs did to FLORIDA as well. How anyone, in their right mind, could either vote for Scott or not vote for anyone, after the miasma of poisoned sea waters currently affecting the coasts of FL, is completely beyond my reckoning. If you can visually see what’s happened to FL after Scott’s wave of destruction, what makes you think Scott would be a better Senator and DeSantis a better governor??
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I disagree. Look closely at the democratic voter rolls. Not everyone in Dem Land is a highly educated TPM reader. In fact, MOST are not. It does not need to be the ONLY message, but a strong, in your face message it MUST BE!
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It might possibly help that ‘Nelson’ is a not-uncommon name in PR. Not as a surname, but it’s a fairly familiar name, unlike ‘Scott’.
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Read the article closely. He saying the opposite, that it’s HIM trying to fix it! You do know that the vast majority of Democrats are hard working (2-3 jobs, than you!) blue collar people, right? You know they’ve got near zero time to do the political work we here at TPM readerville do. You do realize that’s why TV ads work so well, right?
Let’s all stop being Hampton Liberals and actually GET what the preponderance of our members lives are like. Why do you think Bernie’s message is so damn attractive?
In closing I ask this; by a show of hands, how many here have actually BEEN HOMELESS?
(Raises hand)
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Sorry folks:
We’re informed voters. Not to dismiss them, but people who start paying close attention after Labor Day usually vote for the guy they’d like to have a beer with.
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You can fool a lot of people a lot of the time.
That’s the GOP mantra.
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I’m sorry, I’m sick to death of this bullshit talking point! Look up ANY Democratic candidate’s website. Right here on the first page will be their beliefs and platform. Wait, do you need more?
$15 min wage
Universal health care
Strong consumer protections
Clean water!!!
Air we can ALL breath
Can you please IDENTIFY EXACTLY the lack of policy that will not help voters?
I’ll wait…
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- This isn’t about doing “political work”. This is about just looking around seeing things with your own two eyes and making a cogent determination from there. That’s it. No brain surgery or Magna Cum Laude ranking required.
- Bernie’s message isn’t attractive outside of the White progressive base.
- The people on this site, at least, aren’t Hampton Liberals. (But it sounds cool and I’d like to know where I could sign up for membership).
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You mean a good plan say like ‘Morning in America’. Or MAGA?
Platitudes over plans sure has gotten us in trouble but almost the reverse of the way you see it.
From current evidence what is really needed is a catchy slogan.
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He kept getting elected because he had no serious challengers
He has been non descript and comes across as old and tired.
This is exactly how they are portraying him , accusing him of being a puppet for Pelosi, Shumer and get this HILLARY! (???)
They include her in the ads because she is such a good boogyman
There should have been some young fresh firebrand blood running for this seat
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I was one step away from being homeless for a couple of years. Went from a 4-bedroom house in the 'burbs to a 300 sq. ft. studio in a not-terribly-nice section of downtown. And without drinking or doing drugs. It’s a long story.
On the other hand, I’m not sure that it informed my view of the world very much. That came earlier, particularly in 1968, when many of my liberal friends were laughing at Hubert Humphrey’s campaign, because Hubert was not cool and wasn’t against the Vietnam War enough. So the people who came out to work in the campaign were union people and government employees–people who knew that the outcome of the election was going to matter to them, their families and their friends.
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How can any sentient Puerto Rican support a sociopath and liar like Scott? Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
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OOPs. " exact numbers are hard to come by, as many new immigrants use prepaid mobile phones or do not list their country of origin" …um Puerto Ricans country of origin is the U.S.
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The DNC has very little to do with any of this.
But please keep whining about Democrats and helping Rick Scott and the GOP.
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What the holy fuck does that mean? Insulting your own side isn’t a great electoral tactic, you know.
It’s not attractive to the majority of Democrats and liberals—which is why Bernie lost the primaries and is anathema to that same majority.
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Yet another strike against the “demographics is destiny” crap that is regularly dispensed by morons who do not understand politics.
PR residents have historically been D-leaning. However, no one votes in history. They vote in the present, and alliances can shift. The prediction that PR residents would immediately alter the balance D-favorable is not clear. Possibly Nelson will have to work to attract them. Quell horror!!
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New arrivals are “confused, they don’t understand the [two-party] system,
Please! Puerto Rico has a de facto two party system (the Independence Party and Socialist Party exist alongside the two longstanding parties that get the majority of the vote). The Partido Popular Democratico (PPD) was founded by PR’s first elected Governor, Luis Munoz Marin. The Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) was an early 60’s spin off from the old Statehood Party, which itself was the evolution of the Old PR Republican Party.
Puerto Ricans on the Island also vote in US Presidential Primaries even though they do not have a vote in Presidential elections. The PPD has traditionally been affiliated with the US Democratic Party and the PNP has traditionally been allied with the US Republican Party. There was a period in the 1970’s where the PNP became affiliated with the Democrats after a PNP activist (named Franklin Delano Lopez) supported Jimmy Carter in the PR Primary where most of the PPD establishment was firmly beholden to Ted Kennedy. I believe current PNP Governor Ricardo Rosello may be one of those PNP Democrats that still exist from that anomaly, alongside the Trumpists and other rabid Right Wingers who would not be caught dead in the PPD and regularly accuse the PPD of being communists and closeted independence radicals. Gov. Rosello’s father, former Gov. Pedro Rosello, may well have been one of those shotgun wedding PNP-Democrats.
That said, I understand if new arrivals aren’t immersed in the US or Florida political culture. When I arrived in NYC it took me a couple of years to register Democrat. But tribal two party PR politics may have predated the current US political culture, and goes 365/24/7. PRs definitely understand a two party system.
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