Puerto Rico Features in New Statehood Strategy

Up from the ashes of the D.C. statehood movement has risen a fresh idea: to present D.C. and Puerto Rico as a pair of vote-neutering twins, where the territory’s right-leaning representatives in Congress would cancel out the District’s left-leaning ones. Never mind that Puerto Rico, home to about 3.5 million vote-starved brethren, who are more or less evenly split along party lines, has five times more people than the District. Our dispatch from the latest, and somewhat pointless, statehood commission meeting.

Puerto Rico Features in New Statehood Strategy

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