[cll]

As an FYI, the island's nominal Republicans were narrowly ousted by the nominal democrats in yesterday's election, including, apparently, Governor Luis Fortuño (final results are not in yet). To me this only shows how local politics could swing back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, if Puerto Rico were a state.

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[Ebenezer]

I read that Governor-elect García already said that he will do nothing about the plebiscite, giving the convenient excuse that the current Commonwealth status was not among the choices.