• stringere
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    23 days ago

    Puerto Rican voters

    Does someone else want to tell atempuser23?

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        23 days ago

        1.7% nationally isn’t much when spread out. I’m sure there are districts out there which are predominantly Puerto Rican, I just don’t think they’re a significantly large group.

        Which is why I fully support making them a state and giving them due representation.

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          In a close election, any decent percentage matters and they are not spread out evenly at all. For instance, there are 500,000 in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was won by only 42k in 2016

          Plus a million in Florida - that can make the florida senate race a little more competitive. New York downballot races are a big part of why dems lost the house in 2022, and there’s also around a million in New York

          They should certainly have representation, yes, but that’s not to say the Puerto Ricans in swing states / competitive downballot won’t matter either

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      23 days ago

      You know there’s a significant Puerto Rican population in New York and Florida, right?

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        An estimated 5.8 million Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin lived in the United States in 2021

        337 million in the US.

        I wouldn’t call 1.7% spread across 50 states significant.

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          1.7% is more than enough to flip some swing states. Most swing states.

          And two in particular have more than an average number of Puerto Ricans.

          So yeah, it matters.

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          They’re not spread across 50 states, there are large population groups in PA, NY, and FL.