We voted to become a state.........Any more questions?

Some countries in east Europe can follow. For example Czech republic and Poland can become a 52. and 53.ststate... because the US has influenced our countries completely and we are Americanized completely.

Not 60% was less than 50% the Prove Sr. Padilla support ELA and he WINS ByE fortuño. 

Motivation and i think that over 200.000 people would be enogh to throw the broke back of usa out from PR "Viva la Independencia"we could give you a surprise a real not like octuber. 

The title is almost a pun: Puerto Rico votes for statehood. If PR is unable to gain US statehood and be coerced into regarding itself unequal and unrecognized as a US state, then full independence from US will have to be the choice. Looks like many US senators' racial-profiling policy (essentially non-Anglisch people are not "Americans") backed up by a great number of "Americans" will leave PR with no chance of joining but to be fully independent from its disenfranchisement. Then the domino will likely fall on Guam and other disenfranchised minor islands and finally on Texas, Hawaii, Alaska, California, Florida, New Mexico and Nevada: a wave of "everybody quits the Union" starts...

So the Titanic is singing - people are screaming and running down the halls to find lifeboats - and Puerto Rico is in a room and on the phone making a return reservation to London.....

So the Titanic is singing - people are screaming and running down the halls to find lifeboats - and Puerto Rico is in a room and on the phone making a return reservation to London.....

Whoever moderates this aggressively is a real putz. They must not always be around because it happens in cycles, mass deletions of perfectly compliant posts. It's just that it isn't what the moderator agrees with. Grow up.

Again, since RT deleted my first correction attempt, this article does not mention that over 500,000 voted for something other than statehood and another 500,000 didn't vote about statehood at all, just that they wanted to change the current situation. That doesn't make the 800,000 who voted for statehood so significant, and I see no reason for RT to omit these facts.

It's a shame to have to search Google for what's missing in many RT articles.

HR (unregistered),
W here are you getting that from. I searched and I did see a little difference in numbers but they still favored statehood.

Al l that I am finding so far says pretty much the same thing that I cut and pasted below.
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A referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico was held in Puerto Rico on November 6, 2012.[1][2] Puerto Ricans were asked whether they agree to continue with the current territorial status, and were then given three choices of alternative political status to choose from: statehood, independence, or a sovereign nation in free association with the United States.[3] Previous referendums have been held to decide on the political status of Puerto Rico, most recently in 1998. [4][5][6] The referendum resulted in 53.9% of votes expressing a preference being against maintaining the political status quo, and 61.15% of the votes expressing a preference opting for statehood if status is to be changed.[7] There fore, Puerto Rico's nonvoting Resident Commissioner is expected to introduce congressional legislation admitting Puerto Rico to the Union. As with other bills, it would have to pass both the House and the Senate, and be signed by the President of the United States, or, if vetoed, be overridden by 2/3 of each of the House and Senate to become law.[2]

Statehood lost in Puerto Rico. According to the latest numbers 55% of ballots were against Statehood (Autonomous ELA, Independence, blank), 45% for statehood. How can they say that most want statehood? I do not understand.

AmericanInRomania (unregistered) wrote in #14
El Puertorriqueño (unregistered) wrote in #13
We don't welcone USA. ---Well... 61% voted for statehood and 3% voted for full independence.  Sounds like you are in a significant minority, my friend. ---This is a great recent example of the "minority hypocrisy." The multiculturalist only supports minorities when it suits their political agenda. They have no consistent moral beliefs about minority representation.

El Puertorriqueño (unregistered) wrote in #13
We don't welcone USA. ---Well... 61% voted for statehood and 3% voted for full independence.  Sounds like you are in a significant minority, my friend.

We don't welcone USA.

This Citizen vote is simply a non-binding agreement to place Puerto Rico USA State #51 Statehood Ratification before the Zionist corrupted USA Republican majority USA Congress (House of Representatives).

Given the Big Pharma and other Republican hidden Donor Corporations located in Puerto Rico, it is very likely this non-binding agreement will certainly be voted on at sometime in Congress. Likely during the new incoming Jan. 2013 USA Congress.

Wit h the Racist, Bigoted and Gender Bashing Republican Party losing the USA Popular Vote majority in every Presidential election since 1988, it's going to be seen as adding more Hispanic voters to the mix which RIGHTLY voted overwhelmingly (70+%) for Democratic candidates, specifically President Obama. That alone could be used as a political reason to stonewall and block Puerto Rico Statehood but opening up further federal revenue inroads is vitally important now and should trump such crass Republican politics.

gerd (unregistered),

Nice try.