Obama wins Guam caucuses by just 7 votes over Clinton

Is this setting up for the kinds of questions that surround McCain’t ‘natural born citizen’ status should a person from Guam or Puerto RIco end up running for POTUS one day?

No. The Canal Zone was a US territory, just like Guam is now -- or Alaska and Hawaii were then.

You could be born in any of those areas and be a US citizen. But, if you were resident in any of those areas, you couldn't vote in a federal election because -- being territories -- they had no electoral votes.

It's the legal status of the geography that determines the legal status of its residents.

If one was in these territories temporarily (i.e., military), they could of course maintain their residence was actually somewhere in the US proper.

You're correct that the article is poorly written. Where it says "U.S. citizens" probably should've been "U.S. nationals". Natives of Guam would be U.S. nationals, not U.S. citizens.

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