MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Puerto Ricans are not always Democrats
By artappraiser on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 9:59pm |Op-ed by Jose Fuentes, former attorney general, Puerto Rico @ MiamiHerald.com, Nov. 28
Re Andrés Oppenheimer’s Nov. 16 column, “The stampede of Puerto Ricans to Florida is bad news for Trump:” The number of Puerto Ricans who have moved to Florida since Hurricane Maria exceeds 150,000. If they register to vote and remain in Florida, they will probably transform future trends in political elections. However, I disagree with Oppenheimer’s premise that they will benefit Democrats, in revenge against President Trump [....]
Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico are not liberals. They are conservatives. Many polls show that Puerto Ricans living in Central Florida registered as Democrats consider themselves conservatives (www.PR51st.com). That is, they are a “floating vote,” aligning themselves with whomever seems best. This floating vote in 2004 carried George Bush to the presidency; Mel Martinez to the Senate; and Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 and 2012. In 2016, it stayed at home, not voting for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who lost [....]
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Comes to mind lots of those with Caribbean heritage tend to like conservative Dems or RINO's; Colin Powell is an excellent stereotypical example. I know of a few NYC Dominican-Americans who were big Giuliani fans but I could never see them becoming Trump populists even before the hurricane. Giuliani was highly pro-immigrant and pro-ethnic when he was mayor, he really played that. Did a lot of visiting of the "homelands" of NYC and did all the ethnic parades, etc.
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/30/2017 - 9:45pm
Oh come on, this is a delirious magical pony post begging people to firgive and forget rather than seriously describing such thing. I noted the conservative streak as part of the post-mortem last year, but what, $30 million aid is enough to keep Puerto Ricans from being pissed? Especially 150,000 whi've moved to the US now with little chance to go home again? Expect a 90% Dem vote from them, pulling a number out of my ass. Directly insulting PR politicians from DC? A sore spot for *200 years* in the Caribbean. Seriously, when Castro died I noted the US had actuvely prohibited the Bolivar revolution from coming to Cuba back in 1820. Those people dont forget their history the way we do.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 12/01/2017 - 5:17am
Oh I don't know, I think it's quite possible to blame Trump and his followers as an abomination quite separate from GOP vs. Dem party. I certainly don't see Puerto Ricans with the ability and means to move to Florida turning the state liberal. Locally in "the homeland", they don't even have the same political parties we do which might explain a tendency to judge pols on an individual basis.
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/02/2017 - 3:03am
Neither of the big 2 seems very conservative.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/02/2017 - 3:47am