Puerto Rico Democratic primary results discussion thread

[True Democrat]

Clinton now has 93% of the votes.

[Tender Branson]

Yay. 1 precinct counted:

Clinton - 27 votes - 93%
Obama - 2 votes - 7%

Turnout: 12.9%

[Meeker]

They've adjusted the exit polls, and Blitzer and Schneider just gave some excuse about them that they could be wrong or something.

[War on Want]

Does anybody know where most people of african descent live in Puerto Rico at? If I could guess I would say in heavily agricultural areas, but I am probably wrong.

[Alcon]

Arecibo 027, the precinct that just reported with 29 votes, has a registration of like 200.

So, yeah, stellar turnout there.

Another precinct, this one in Mayaguez, has delivered 79-42 for Clinton.

[Alcon]

They've adjusted the exit polls, and Blitzer and Schneider just gave some excuse about them that they could be wrong or something.

They were talking about the New Hampshire exit polling being correct while pre-election polling was wrong.

CNN has done their standard post-close tweak (I still don't understand why they do that) to 69-31 Clinton.

[Meeker]

They've adjusted the exit polls, and Blitzer and Schneider just gave some excuse about them that they could be wrong or something.

They were talking about the New Hampshire exit polling being correct while pre-election polling was wrong.

CNN has done their standard post-close tweak (I still don't understand why they do that) to 69-31 Clinton.

Ah.

[Lief 🗽]

Well, it's a good thing most of those districts have an even number of delegates, or else Obama would be screwed.

[NOVA Green]

Arecibo 027, the precinct that just reported with 29 votes, has a registration of like 200.

So, yeah, stellar turnout there.

Another precinct, this one in Mayaguez, has delivered 79-42 for Clinton.

Apparently Mayaguez has a sizable university population approximately 10% of the 100,000 population, and is also 36% Black....

[Franzl]

Well, it's a good thing most of those districts have an even number of delegates, or else Obama would be screwed.

I don't really think the delegates matter at all. Clinton needed a popular vote boost (even that wouldn't have changed anything), but it appears she won't come anywhere near what she wanted.

[Verily]

They've adjusted the exit polls, and Blitzer and Schneider just gave some excuse about them that they could be wrong or something.

They were talking about the New Hampshire exit polling being correct while pre-election polling was wrong.

CNN has done their standard post-close tweak (I still don't understand why they do that) to 69-31 Clinton.

They add more respondents when that happens. I always assumed it was information from the last hour of voters to show up at the polls (so CNN didn't have time to factor it in before close).

[Gustaf]

Well, it's a good thing most of those districts have an even number of delegates, or else Obama would be screwed.

If he really is getting trounced by 40% that won't really help much though, will it?

[Meeker]

Delegate allocation will also be easy for us thanks to CNN's maps having districts equivalent to the delegate allocation districts.

[Verily]

Arecibo 027, the precinct that just reported with 29 votes, has a registration of like 200.

So, yeah, stellar turnout there.

Another precinct, this one in Mayaguez, has delivered 79-42 for Clinton.

Apparently Mayaguez has a sizable university population approximately 10% of the 100,000 population, and is also 36% Black....

Yeah, but we have no idea where in the Mayaguez district, which contains a lot more than Mayaguez, this is coming from.

[Verily]

CNN had some numbers from San Juan which then got retracted. Weird.

[Alcon]

The Mayaguez precinct is San Sebastian, nowhere near the university.

[Tender Branson]

Clinton down to 64%.

[Meeker]

CNN had some numbers from San Juan which then got retracted. Weird.

They weren't accurate, we had to fix them!

Have some asopao and don't think about it

[Verily]

Turnout in precincts reporting so far was 14.6% (804 of 5498 registered voters).

[True Democrat]

Turnout in precincts reporting so far was 14.6%.

Although that's very low, I bet low turnout districts report first since they have less votes to count than expected.

[Tender Branson]

Turnout in precincts reporting so far was 14.6% (804 of 5498 registered voters).

Which of course means Clinton will net 100K if current trends continue.

[Meeker]

You also have to keep in mind that turnout is of all voters. If we had turnout numbers for primaries and included every voter registered - independent and Republicans - we'd have a lot lower turnout on the mainland as well.

Still, that is rather low.

[Lief 🗽]

CNN had some numbers from San Juan which then got retracted. Weird.

Not weird at all; that's how they do things down there.

[Gustaf]

What are the district delegate numbers?

[Verily]

You also have to keep in mind that turnout is of all voters. If we had turnout numbers for primaries and included every voter registered - independent and Republicans - we'd have a lot lower turnout on the mainland as well.

Still, that is rather low.

True, but turnout was predicted to be around 40-50%.