Hillary and Porto Rico (Hilllary Group)

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To win, Clinton needs Florida’s fastest growing group of voters http://politi.co/1OmdwWe via @@gdebenedetti | Getty



This is a few days old but interesting. I had posted a poll a bit ago in which Hillary is ahead in Florida (don't know how this voting group factors in).


Hillary Clinton’s Puerto Rican play for Florida

To win, the Democrat needs Florida’s fastest growing group of voters. To do that, she’s calling on their relatives back home.

By Gabriel Debenedetti

09/04/15, 05:09 AM EDT
A supporter holds a sign as he waits for a rally to begin in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in May 2008, during Hillary Clinton’s first campaign for president. She returns to the island Friday.

By Jennifer Haberkorn

Hillary Clinton’s going to Puerto Rico, and it’s not because she’s chasing the island’s delegates.

The Democratic front-runner flies to San Juan on Friday with an eye firmly trained on central Florida and its rapidly expanding Puerto Rican population, a group Democrats think could prove decisive to winning one of the most critical swing states of 2016. And any message she sends to those voters is effectively cc’ed to Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.

Clinton’s trip is designed to project the sense to this politically potent group that Clinton takes the territory’s troubles seriously. She has already called for the federal government to take steps to ease Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, and on Friday she will sit with local residents to hear about the island’s healthcare problems amid its economic downturn.
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By Michael Hirsh

More than any other appeal to Hispanics, Clinton’s pitch is a direct challenge to Rubio, who also makes his first visit to the island this week, and to Bush, who has already checked that box. Both Republicans are courting the same set of voters with an argument that each is the candidate who can bring Latinos back to the GOP. Indeed, for Clinton and the two fluent Spanish-speaking Republicans in the race, the fight for Florida has become a battle for hearts and minds in Puerto Rico.

“If Hillary wins Florida, she’s the president of the United States,” argued John Morgan, an Orlando lawyer and major Democratic donor backing Clinton. “When you get to Florida, where it will all be determined is the I-4 corridor, between Tampa and Daytona. In the middle of it all, in central Florida, is this gigantic population of Puerto Ricans with strong ties back home.”

If it seems premature to be making a general-election play, it’s a reflection of how critical Florida is to these candidates’ game-plans.....................

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clintons-puerto-rican-play-for-florida-213331#ixzz3kxfE2Oby

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1. This is awesome, riversedge.. Hillary in Puerto Rico.. Muchas Gracias!

[R. P. McMurphy]

2. That Moran in the picture spelled Porto Rico incorrectly.

Sheesh!