>>Jeez, if people would just read before offering a visceral reaction.<<
I read it. What is your point?
That you cannot speculate on what would island Puerto Rican voting trends would be in a new state based on mainland Hispanic voting trends. Two different animals. Puerto Ricans are socially conservative, even if fiscally liberal in some ways. Puerto Rico would be a battleground state. We have no tradition of Republican vs. Democrat voting here. Not even conservative vs. liberal. Voters are aligned here in different ways. It would be up to each party to educate and harvest those votes in the future.