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01 Jun 2008 04:50 pm
What Does Today's Primary Mean?
Not much, according to this reader:
I'm a Puerto Rican reader and I currently live in PR after living a
good chunk of my adult life in the US. I've been following the
primaries in the US closely. I studied in the States, have a masters
degree. Out of my very highly educated friends, I'm the only one who's
paying attention to what's going on in this election year in the US.
You cannot use Puerto Rico as a basis for explaining any phenomenon in
the US.
We are a colony. We do not participate in any of the US
political processes, really. There isn't a general understanding of US
national politics, nor of the "Republican" v. "Democrat" mentality. We
are consumed by our local politics and whether we should become a
state, an independent country or remain as we are.
Clinton's victory here means nothing. There's a lot of name
recognition and her husband is a rock star here. That's it. Don't
extrapolate the results into anything. We are not Latinos in the same
way that Mexican Americans are Latinos. Our vote has nothing to do
with Obama's "problem" with Latinos. Anyone trying to frame the PR
vote into anything other than name recognition, has no knowledge of PR
at all and is, in short, full of it.
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