[Dilbert San Diego]

with calls for PR statehood, I wonder about other places too.

There’s been talk of making the District of Columbia a state.

What about others? Should we make Guam a state? American Samoa? The Virgin Islands?

Talk of “equal” status?? Well, territories don’t have the same status as states. That’s why they are not “equal”. What am I missing???

[marron]

DC should not be a state, but there is no question that DC residents should be able to vote for president. I suggest the same thing should be true of Guam and PR.

[adorno]

What am I missing???

A brain? (Sorry, you left yourself open for that one).

However, your logic stinks.

So, where it the rule that says that "territories will not have voting rights privileges", and who came up with it, LOGICALLY? If a territory is subject to the same rules as regular states, including people serving in the military and being able to vote when residing in any of the 50 states, then, why can't they legally vote when back "at home"? Makes no sense. The rules for territories seem to have been created randomly with no real purpose, other than to keep them labeled as territories with less than full states' privileges.