If the race for Puerto Rico’s governor were held today, the latest poll from El Nuevo Día, the island’s largest newspaper, suggests that incumbent Republican and pro-statehooder Luis Fortuño would have a hard time overcoming his main challenger, Alejandro García Padilla.
Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño
These latest results, which were published this morning in END, changed very little from a poll that ran in late March. García Padilla, who is the choice of the island’s Popular Democratic Party (PPD) was at 38% then and he is at 38% now. Fortuño was at 30%, and has crept up to 31%. Pro-independence candidate Juan Dalmau is still at 4%, and there is still 19% who are undecided.
Even with the current national attention by the Republican National Committee being given to Fortuño, the incumbent has barely dented García Padilla’s lead, if that. It’s all about the economy, as they say, and in Puerto Rico, Fortuño’s much publicized tough love has resulted in a more divided island that is still spiraling from double-digit unemployment, a shrinking labor force, and an exodus of young talent to the mainland.
Who knows what the 19% undecided are thinking, but to think that Fortuño will have an easy time is a stretch indeed. Maybe the RNC should be taking notes and rethinking its promotion of the Puerto Rican governor.
GOD HELP US ALL IF American GOP RACIST Furtuno gets back in! Colonial Slavery will continue for us Second Class U.S Citizens in Puerto Rico and America! FREE ME OR KILL ME!Boricua in Chains!
How is he racist? I’ve got seriously bad news for you. Republicans were founded as the abolishing party against slavery. Abraham Lincoln,the first Republican President,abolished slavery. (A main reason he was assasinated)
Republicans passes civil rights laws as early as 1870,known as the “reconstruction laws”
Democrats sided with slavery. All democrat states seceeded to form the Confederate States of America. Why? It was’t because they liked blacks being free! They knew that the Republican Party was aiming to end slavery.
Democrats,as soon as the union was restored, won the votes of ALL racist southern states. From 1870 to 1970’s (100 years) The south was solid DEMOCRAT. Democrats endorsed….
the burning of Black Churches.
Looked the other way when lynchings occured of Blacks and Italians(sicilians)
Repealed RECONSTRUCTION and Eliminated African American civvil rights.
Plessy vs Furguesson “seperate but NOT so equal”
American blacks were gratefull to the GOP for decades,had stable nuclear families,and had a strong optimistic individual spirit of can do. Only inhibited by the racist obstacles imposed by individuals. Yet, many made it to become successfull millionaires and entrepreneurs. They voted Republican…….
Untill Democrats came up with a system to keep blacks in “their place” to get them to rely on government to survive. They endorsed welfare to destroy minority families,replacing the father with a check. Conditions came as well. To keep welfare,you could not work. To make matters worse, democrats endorsed(and Obama recently restored) the provision that gives more welfare per child.
Democrats,with their dependent constituents are the true colonialist slavery party…economic slavery of minorities. Know your history.
Split the vote evenly,make the democrats work for your vote.
FYI, at the time, not all Republicans favored Lincoln’s position. If you know your history, you would know that Lincoln wasn’t the first choice of the Republican convention in 1860. Fast forward to now, most of the South is pretty red again. So while we agree that Lincoln’s Republican Party helped to abolish slavery during the Civil War, the current Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln. Hell, it is not even the party of Reagan. As for the Dems, they have their issues too, the Great Society in the end was noble but in hindsight has not worked. However, why do we as a country have only TWO SOLUTIONS to the problem, either Dem or Rep? That is the problem I think is wrong with the country, too much finger-pointing and not enough working together. Thanks for the comment!
Very seldom do you ever see everyone on board with anything Julito. The point being is the majority of the Republicans supported civil rights since way back when and still do today.
You are a bigot and ignorant individual the faciast republican party today is not the same party of Lincoln so don’t pat yourself in the back. Unemployement is high, do you propose people die and starve. What happen to humanity and the belief in God. Hard to believe people like you share this world with those who care.
Gotta love them drama queens!
So we are clear, I was referring to the first poster Wise Latina when I wrote “Gotta love them drama queens!” Doesn’t she know it is the PDP party that supports the colonial status?!
“On ABC’s This Week, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele — his party’s first African-American chairman — made a point of arguing that his party had been on the forefront of civil rights when the landmark act Rand was referring to was passed in 1964, as well as the Voting Rights Act that passed the following year.
“Our party has always had a strong view on this issue,” Steele told ABC’s Jake Tapper. “We fought very hard in the ’60s to get the civil rights bill passed as well as the voting rights bill.”
We decided to see whether Steele was correct.
The Civil Rights Act — which is best known for barring discrimination in public accommodations — passed the House on Feb. 10, 1964 by a margin of 290-130. When broken down by party, 61 percent of Democratic lawmakers voted for the bill (152 yeas and 96 nays), and a full 80 percent of the Republican caucus supported it (138 yeas and 34 nays).
When the Senate passed the measure on June 19, 1964, — nine days after supporters mustered enough votes to end the longest filibuster in Senate history — the margin was 73-27. Better than two-thirds of Senate Democrats supported the measure on final passage (46 yeas, 21 nays), but an even stronger 82 percent of Republicans supported it (27 yeas, 6 nays).
The primary reason that Republican support was higher than Democratic support — even though the legislation was pushed hard by a Democratic president, Lyndon B. Johnson — is that the opposition to the bill primarily came from Southern lawmakers. In the mid 1960s, the South was overwhelmingly Democratic — a legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction, when the Republican Party was the leading force against slavery and its legacy. Because of this history, the Democratic Party in the 1960s was divided between Southern Democrats, most of whom opposed civil rights legislation, and Democrats from outside the South who more often than not supported it.
This pattern showed clearly in the House vote. Northern Democrats backed the Civil Rights Act by a margin even larger than that of Republicans — 141 for, just four against — while Southern Democrats were strongly opposed, by a margin of 11 yeas to 92 nays.
When the Voting Rights Act hit the floor in 1965, the vote results mirrored those of the Civil Rights Act. In the House, the measure passed by a 333-85 margin, with 78 percent of Democrats backing it (221 yeas and 61 nays) and 82 percent of Republicans backing it (112 yeas to 24 nays).
In the Senate, the measure passed by a 77-19 vote, with 73 percent of Democrats and 94 percent of Republicans supporting the bill.
So it’s clear that Republican support for both bills was deep. But to make sure we weren’t missing something, we contacted a number of scholars who have studied that period, asking whether Republicans were dragged into supporting the bills reluctantly, or whether they took frontline roles in advancing them.
Generally speaking, the scholars we talked to agreed that Republicans were important players, usually working cooperatively with Johnson and other leading Democrats.” http://www.politifact.com
You hit the nail right on the head with your post Luis. If you promise to give more handouts and support whatever issues get’s the vote then the uninformed masses will follow blindly. Just look at what welfare handouts has done to Puerto Rico! Everyone knows the Democrats are the entitlement party and when the Republican party talks about limiting the entitlements they are considered racist. If the Republican party talks about stepping up security to stop illegal immigration, which only serves to degrade services legal citizens are entitled to, they are considered racist.
The Democratic party has a fantastic propaganda machine that churns out a ton of misinformation every day.
“But knowing the truth will set you free!”
La editorial de ese periodico esta a favor del PPD colonialista que le prestó sobre 100 millones bajo el gov. de Sila.