Worth examining, in my opinion.
SCOTT!
The Puerto Rican’s wealthy enough to leave probably aren’t libtards.
I figure they probably didn’t vote in large numbers.
Maybe they’ve learned NOT to trust fast talking Democrats who make promises but don’t deliver.
They aren’t like Californians.
Maybe people spend too much time worrying about things that don’t matter.
Don’t be cocky. They came damn close to it.
And they probably will in a couple more elections.
So, what ever happened to the Florida-flippin’ Puerto Ricans?
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I believe they were counted, and came up short.
Don’t count your chickens. Broward is still counting ballots and Nelson’s team thinks there’s more than enough ballots to take the lead.
Recall that Trump through FEMA renewed (a massive amount of money) the FEMA hotel vouchers for the displaced Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees. This served to orient them to returning to PR, and not be able to be “registered” (which they could NOT be under FL’s voter ID law) as dems.... that’s one.
Separately, most have missed the FBI raid on the San Juan Mayor’s offices (exposing the graft and corruption on FEMA supplies denied to PR island citizens), that and including the current corrupt governor of the Territory, in that same raid.
Do feel that the Wayne Liebnitsky loss to Soto in a Congressional District was affected by the existing PR expat community in that area of FL— but that demographic has been present since bill clinton eliminated the special taxing corporate district in PR— thus eliminating 900K skilled engineering jobs in Pharma and Agribusiness, and Pharma moved this operation to.. Ireland. It was an every 3 year accelerated tax write off for factory refurbishment/re-tooling, and clinton (in order to cultivate the statehood PR people there) got rid of it. Professional PR people were really pissed about it, and many moved to FL (again, skilled professionals, chem engineers etc).
Well they now have 1.5 million former felons. I don’t see how there can really be that many, however.
Do they want jobs?
Wait, Florida squeaks out a republican governor and you get all uppity about Puerto Ricans and how they should be offended by claims they’ll vote demon?
Just be happy....
I think the President was more than helpful in the Florida outcome.
2) Outside of New York, Puerto Ricans may not be that liberal.
3) Maybe they're similar to Cubans: if you are entrepreneurial, you go to Miami; otherwise you end up in Jersey City or the Bronx.
I swear sometimes reading the comments posted here......
eg “woah is us. Puerto Ricans and Felons and Yankees are going to continue to pour in in an uninterrupted torrent and overwhelm all the sane voters, and everything is going to fall apart and the Democrats are going to manufacture a billion gajillion votes from car trunks to “win” every election. We’re DOOMED! Why don’t we just slit our wrists now and get it over with?”
Sheesh.
PR had a good (GOP) governor briefly, about 10 years ago, and SEIU did a massive campaign and got him out because he was trying to get rid of the swollen bureaucracy and state apparatus that has long been sucking the life out of PR. However, he was well liked and in his brief stay, he did a lot for PR, which needs an economy where everyone’s highest dream is NOT to be working for the state.
I’ve always thought that the big problem with PR is that many Puerto Ricans were formed by their years in the Democratic Socialist City of New York, but unlike New York, Puerto Rico has no unabashed capitalists or independent economy to carry it forward. It’s all handouts and dysfunction and corruption all the time.
I was staying in a hotel in PR when they had the governors election where the GOP governor lost, and the entire staff was crushed, because business had been doing really well under him and these people wanted a shot at a functioning economy. So I wouldn’t assume that Puerto Ricans, especially those with the resources to come to the mainland, are automatically Dem voters.
Yeah minorities really changed their colors for the house races
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I’m leaning toward thinking about 200,000 black people in FL flipped from D to R since 2016. That would have made up the difference. Trump got 8% of the FL black vote, DeSantis got 14%. Fl has 3.3 million black people. This is still a guess until we get some good exit polling.