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elleng

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Fri Jul 31, 2015, 01:32 PM Jul 2015

Martin O'Malley To Visit Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico residents can’t vote for president, but the island is an important campaign stop for two reasons. One, it holds around two dozen Democratic Party delegates (that’s a few more than Vermont and way less than Florida). Therefore, Puerto Rican votes still count in the primaries. Two, it is a symbolic visit to the home of millions of boricua expat voters. As many as one million Puerto Rican migrants could vote in Florida in the 2016 elections, and in the primaries. It's a perpetual battleground state that could be key in the general election (though in 2012, to the delight of many, the state ended up not making a difference).

Trailblazing on Latino issues hasn’t helped O’Malley much so far in the polls. He’s still hovering in single digits, even after Latino media embraced his eight-page immigration plan. In a Univision poll taken before that push, 78 percent of Latino voters didn't know who he was, and only 1 percent said they'd vote for him. That might change as his campaigning gets more agressive and his policies get more ambtious. In the words of Latino Rebels, he’s “taken the lead” on many Latino issues. Martin O’Malley has said in the past that his winning polls won’t be his strategy. Instead, he’s going after those delegate votes, one state, one territory at a time.

http://www.latintimes.com/martin-omalley-visit-puerto-rico-first-declared-2016-presidential-candidate-will-take-332445

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