Future of Puerto Rico

[Big Lebowski]

I've just learned that Puerto Rico has voted to join the USA as 51th state. If US will accept that, as it seems, what's going to happen?
Will PR sports remain independent (like Hong Kong and Macao after the annexation by China) or we won't have anymore a Puerto Rican national basketball team?

[J-Mart]

Nothing will happen, as usual. The governor-elect will not proceed with the so called pro-statehood result, simply because as he claims, his party backed ideology was not represented in the voting. As for the referendum, the ballot consisted of 2 questions, asking if the voter was happy with the actual status, Yes (46%) or No (54%) and the 2nd part being which statuss would u prefer, Statehood (61%), Sovereign Commonwealth whatever that is (33%) and the Independence (5%). The results dont give the supermajority that Obama asked for to change the status, and the referendums wasnt backed by congress and other issued that will keep the result from really maturing into something more than a news link on this forum.

[JGX]

Puerto Rico votes to disband their National Team?

Seems like the humane thing to do:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/07/politics/election-puerto-rico/index.html

TBH it's not actually clear what conclusion to draw from the vote.

[J-Mart]

.the humane thing is to do something and to do it yesterday (Ya'll late)

want a conclusion from the voting?
Dont even bother with it. The whole process was flawed and created to try to gain a political advantage of it. And there are more than one way to interpret the voting.


"The land of the free" where "Liberty" is a reason to go to war, has a colony in the caribbean... How ironic

yall full of bullshit
with all due respect to my fellow members, nothing personal


The economic downturn is the reason the pro-statehood governor just lost the election, not why we (as a whole, not personally included in that 66% of 54% that want a change of status) voted for the statehood.

[saalsapr]

.the humane thing is to do something and to do it yesterday (Ya'll late)

want a conclusion from the voting?
Dont even bother with it. The whole process was flawed and created to try to gain a political advantage of it. And there are more than one way to interpret the voting.


"The land of the free" where "Liberty" is a reason to go to war, has a colony in the caribbean... How ironic

yall full of bullshit
with all due respect to my fellow members, nothing personal


The economic downturn is the reason the pro-statehood governor just lost the election, not why we (as a whole, not personally included in that 66% of 54% that want a change of status) voted for the statehood.

And the fact that people got confused when voting.

Lets go by the numbers.

The first question asked to puerto ricans was: Are you happy with our current political status?

The second question was: Which of the following status would you rather have then? (Obviously a question for the ones that chose a no in the first question)

Of the 934,238 of voters who chose NO in the first question,

802,179 of them chose statehood,

72,551 chose independence,

and the remaining 59,508 of the people that voted no, chose the sovereign commonwealth option.

But, the sovereign commonwealth option has 436,997 votes, so that means 377,489 of the people that chose the YES option in the first question chose this answer in the second.

In total

796,007 chose YES first option + 132,059 that chose a different answer (excluding statehood obviously) to the second question (whether it be independence or a sovereign state not including the ones that voted yes to the first question) means that:


802,179 of the people are in favor of statehood (46.36%)

928,066 of the people are against statehood (53.64%)


So to summarize most people are against statehood in Puerto Rico. And there are probably more cause there are a bunch of liberals over here that dont vote at all in an apparent protest against the top two political parties winning all the time.


Now if only american reporters did their homework they wouldnt be spreading superficial news to the people.

[JGX]

.the humane thing is to do something and to do it yesterday (Ya'll late)

Just to be clear I meant the humane thing to do was to disband the Puerto Rican NT The title got buried when the threads were merged.

And there are more than one way to interpret the voting.

Yeah that's what I meant when I said it's not clear what conclusion to draw from the vote.

[cardenales]

Im glad that statehood did not won, I believe in the indenpendence of Puerto Rico.

If Puerto Rico become state (unfortunately), PR will not be sports indenpendent. Thats for sure.