Who will Puerto Rico Support????

For the Press, On to Puerto Rico -- Where Obama May Have Surprising Support
NEW YORK On to…Puerto Rico? Hillary Clinton’s March 4 primary victories in Ohio and Texas ensured that the Democratic campaign is far from over. As voters continue to yo-yo between the New York senator and Barack Obama, with neither winning decisively enough to claim the nomination, more and more states with late primary dates get the opportunity to have a big say.This is a new role for Puerto Rico, which has been widely described as being the “last to vote.” Actually, this is no longer true. The territory has now decided to move its vote forward to June 1 from June 7, and two other states will now go to the polls later, Montana and South Dakota, on June 3. Also, in a move of some significance, the Puerto Rico vote will now be in a primary, not caucuses (where Obama has done well in the past). This is no small thing, as it has a healthy pile of delegates, 63 (including eight super-delegates). Puerto Rico has usually been just an addendum to a nominee’s burgeoning delegate count. But this spring, voters there could influence who the nominee will be. And those who suggest that it may be an easy win for Clinton may not be aware that its governor strongly backs Obama.Will Puerto Rico prove crucial? “It remains to be seen,” says Kevin Mead, editor at The San Juan Star, an English-language newspaper. “It depends on what ends up happening with Florida and Michigan. If they get re-done they could steal a little bit of Puerto Rico’s thunder.” In the meantime, the paper is tracking the daily developments of the race.

This is the chance that Puerto Rico has been waiting for, more power and recognition. According to the book Boricua Power, Puerto Rico started battleling for rights ever since the 1960's and now they have the chance to select the democratic runner for this years election towards presedency. In the book it states that many Puerto Ricans suffered a lot to get where they are at and have lost a lot of things because of the United States, but recently the governor of Puerto Rico started to support Obama, as the democratic candidate, so now is up to the question of who will lead the democratic party.