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applegrove

(118,682 posts)
Fri Oct 6, 2017, 06:58 PM Oct 2017

Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics

https://politicalwire.com/2017/10/06/exodus-puerto-rico-remake-florida-politics/

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New York Times: “Every day dozens of Puerto Ricans pour into the Orlando area, fleeing their homes and lives ravaged by Hurricane Maria. In the months to come, officials here said, that number could surge to more than 100,000. And those numbers could remake politics in Florida, a state where the last two presidential and governor’s races were decided by roughly one percentage point or less.”

“There are more than a million Puerto Ricans in Florida, a number that has doubled since 2001, driven largely until now by a faltering economy. But their political powers have evolved slowly in this state, and the wave of potential voters from the island could quickly change that calculus.”

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Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2017 OP
Scott and trump will get to work fast to see if they can starve these people Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #1
Trump may turn Florida blue Gothmog Oct 2017 #2
I know some Whites that voted for him who regret their vote now. nt Blue_true Oct 2017 #4
Good. We could use 50,000 more Dems in my part of Florida. Blue_true Oct 2017 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Scott and trump will get to work fast to see if they can starve these people
Fri Oct 6, 2017, 07:00 PM
Oct 2017

or do away with them somehow before they vote.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
3. Good. We could use 50,000 more Dems in my part of Florida.
Fri Oct 6, 2017, 08:00 PM
Oct 2017

I am in north central Florida, hope some come live here.

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