Romney vs. BO - Saddo's kids race mongering thread

[TitoFan]

Either way the country loses. I've never been fond of this gridlock you mention. Ideally, if you disagree on an issue because you truly disagree, partisanship be damned... then fine. But when party lines and loyalty are the deciding factors, it truly muddles things up. Any direction is better than no direction, IMO. It happens here (P.R.) too. We have mostly a two major party political system. When the governor from one party wins, but the other party gets a majority in the Senate and/or House, it's a fucking nightmare.

By the way, what happened w/PR statehood?

Our elections, which occured the same day as in the States, included a referendum on status. The statehood status won convincingly, a major victory for statehooders here on the island. We now have to see how the new elected officials plan to proceed with these results, and of course the whole thing needs to be presented to the U.S. I briefly saw some coverage on Yahoo about it today.

[OumaFan]

Was actually just reading this article about that: Puerto Rico Vote Endorses Statehood With Asterisk - ABC News

Completely uninformed about this topic, but I was a bit surprised by how few Puerto Ricans wanted complete independence. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised, again I'm completely uninformed about Puerto Rican politics.

[TitoFan]

Was actually just reading this article about that: Puerto Rico Vote Endorses Statehood With Asterisk - ABC News

Completely uninformed about this topic, but I was a bit surprised by how few Puerto Ricans wanted complete independence. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised, again I'm completely uninformed about Puerto Rican politics.

LOL... you're not alone in that. Independence is an ideal in some people's minds, but realistically, the more feasible options are statehood, or the status quo. Statehood has been slowly gathering momentum over the years, but I think there's a lot of misinformation that doesn't help to make the choice. Of course, once P.R. completely endorses statehood, it's up to the U.S. Congress to accept.