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Today's Washington Post:
"More than 50 million ballots were cast by Floridians in the seven presidential elections from 1992 through 2016. If you add them all up, only 18,000 votes separate the Republicans from the Democrats. That is 0.04%.
Control of the White House in 2000 came down to a few hundred hanging chads - and one vote on the Supreme Court. The past four statewide elections were all decided by a single percentage point."
Here it comes....
"...Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans, maybe more, are expected to permanently move to Florida as the result of Hurricane Maria. Thanks to a law passed in 1917, Puerto Ricans are American citizens. And they tend to overwhelmingly vote Democrat."
People cant talk to their families right now, but the minute people can get through to their families, theyre going to start buying them airplane tickets to get out of there. Its chain migration.
Florida is kind to the elderly. People have the same Social Security card, whether theyre here or in Puerto Rico. - Edwin Meléndez, Hunter College.
We're about to see a shit-ton of Republicans suddenly see climate change as a problem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/09/28/daily-202-trump-s-katrina-influx-of-puerto-ricans-after-hurricane-maria-could-tip-florida-toward-democrats/59cc037c30fb0468cea81c2f/
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Move to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio.
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)PJMcK
(22,048 posts)This is a link to a column by Eddie Borges in Rupert Murdoch's NY Post.
http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/puerto-rico-should-have-been-ready-for-maria/
Mr. Borges writes:
In other words, he's accepting the science of climate change while blaming the victims of the natural disasters in Puerto Rico. It's interesting that conservatives can deny climate change in one breath and then use it as a cudgel to criticize the Americans who inhabit Puerto Rico.