NYT: Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics

[MyNameIsKhan]

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.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/us/politics/puerto-rico-florida-voters.html?_r=0

[nycbos]

1. Time to register some voters.

[bettyellen]

2. They should stop using guest workers at Disney and hire Americans for real wages.

[jaysunb]

3. Welcome Wagons may seem quaint or something from the past, but

Florida Democrats should be applying this concept immediately.

[lpbk2713]

4. As a Floridian I welcome them with open arms.

And I hope registering to vote is one of the first things they do when they arrive.
My nextdoor neighbors are Puerto Rican. Good people.

[babylonsister]

5. Yay! Come on over, move in, vote! We need you

to make FL a better place!

[sarcasmo]

6. Pretty sure the new residents will not be voting for the Towel Tossing Party.

[SCantiGOP]

7. Exactly right

To rephrase something I used to hear about black voters and the GOP:

An Hispanic voting for Trump would be like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

[flamingdem]

8. Florida dems get ready with the voter registration papers!