And now PR notices that it was a typo? Come on, they just want to end this sooner rather than later. But it is not fair that Florida and Michigan pay for "moving" their primaries and PR doesnt. My point is not to disenfranchised PR voters (not that they vote in November, but it is nice for them to vote now). My point is that the moving of elections should not be the cause to disenfranchise MILLIONS of voters. The DNC was ok with this, but not ok with the other two. Not fair and they should either have a re-vote or count!

TO Hillary,
When you look like a liar, and talk like a liar, and walk like a liar,
you are a liar.

OBAMA/EDWARDS for TRUTH AND DIGNITY IN THE USA.

This is interesting and probably a bad thing for the Democratic Party. Clinton will most likely take PR and this will further add to the mess in Denver.

Why are they allowed to make all these changes?????

I guess this is good.

Why shouldn't state MI and Fl be counted?
Both states should count? MI and Fl are key to the Presidential Election. Obama should support a new primary.

So we can change the rules for Puerto Rico, but not Fla or Michigan.
What gives. Are they going to punish PR now. Hillary will win Puerto Rico, but Barak will get the delegates that is how the DNC works.
Some Democracy.

Puerto Rico doesn't even get to vote in the Presidential election… does it?

EXTRACTED QUOTE: "According to Puerto Rico party officials, the change was made to a primary to improve voter turnout and also to minimize any voting confusion that may stem from the caucus process."

That's a freakin lie! Lie! Lie! Lie! Lie!

In order to ensure Hillary beats Obama, they switched from caucus format to primary format because they know caucuses favor Obama and primaries favor Hillary.

More kitchen sink throwing.

Thank God, all the people get to vote not just a few.

I'd bet my last bottom dollar that the Clintons had something to do with the format being changed from a caucus to a primary. I just don't trust the Clintons on anything anymore.

this is a good news for hillary.. she will do well in the final primary to prove to voters that she is a leader and a tough contender to john mc caine in the general election ..

There goes my tax-dollar. Paying for Puerto-Rico's say in election with more impact than 34 other states. Well done.

Hillary/Sinbad '08: Experienced from day one - dodging sniper bullets.

Surprised not to see a bunch of Michigan & Florida voters whining up a storm over this article. See what actually happens when you follow the rules..

PUERTO RICO FOR OBAMA!

Puerto Rico will go for Obama all the way, hillary is out of her mind if she thinks she will win here, all latino's don't vote the same!!

Obama 08

Puerto Rico apoya a Clinton.
Puerto Rico for HILLARY!!!!!!

Is the DNC kidding? Another chancce to show the Republicans how much we can screw things up!

Dont be surprised if Hillary request moving the primary up to May 5th. I'm sure she has a Cinco de Mayo scarf in her closet.

Note to Obama: DO NOT REMOVE YOUR NAME FROM THE BALLOT!

You guys are killing me!

Sounds like Billary has been busy again getting the Puerto Rico government to change the rules, changing from a caucus to a primary in order for her to steal some more delegates. I wonder how much they had to pay to get it done?

Hillary wins huge with the latino vote here in the United States. Obviouisly it will benefit her huge in Puerto Rico. She is going to win huge there where the main race is latino/Puerto Rican. GO HILLARY!

I live in nova scotia, canada. I have been paying attention to the political race in the US. This is my believe that the US is not ready for a woman president even I would vote for her. I believe that most people have some bias in some area of our lives. Its been my experience that the people that we are most bias about is people that are like our selves. I believe the Obama wouldn't be where he in the election if he wasn't
africain Americans who is voting 85 - 95 percent for him do the math
Also would you put someone with his senator lack of as your CEO of your company with more experience I would give him real consideration. minister are supposed to be uplifting it is amazing that we all see what is wrong with everone but our pick stick to the issues and take a stand instead of I am president

I ask all you latinos to Vote Clinton LatinosforClinton !! stay strong !!

Chariman Howard Dean needs to step down and take that idiot Speaker Pelosi with him. Then there needs to be a revote in Fl and Mi. Anything less than all citizens votes counting isn't democracy. The DNC's ruling is arbitrary : they chose it. It was a mistake, and it needs to be fixed.

BLACK REPUBLICAN, You are right. I'm suprised that many Bloggers here didn't know about that. The PR CABINET is full of the CLINTON'S CRONIES and they just sided them and changed from Caucus to Primary.

What a sad day for 'our Democratic principles'. It's not that they hid there feelings about OBAMA DOMINANCE in the Caucuses. No, not at all. They said it openly and nobody challenged them because they could have changed that at the begining of this primary season. WHY NOW?

Wake up Americans! We have a long way to go in our DEMOCRACY.

If SUPERDELEGATES do not vote based on whats GOOD FOR THE PARTY, they are ABNEGATING THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.

If the nominating process WAS ONLY BASED ON POPULAR VOTES/DELEGATES than it does not MAKE ANY COMMON SENSE to have a set number, 2024, to clinch the nomination.

Personally I belive OBAMA is a lost cause, HILLARY has some chances but will be marred if African-american revolt. So both should step down and DNC should nominate a more acceptable candidate to get back the White House.

Now just count the millions of votes in Michigan and Florida and give those Americans as much of a voice as Puerto Rico.

At least it will be a primary. The Caucus system really catered to the thug tactics of the Obama fringe. Bully everyone into submission and if that doesn't work, call them all racists.

Hillary's demographic is less suited to the caucus system. We work and have obligations, some of us are elderly and are not as active and mobile.

Puerto Ricans will vote for Hillary. They do not owe anything to Obama and everything to the Clintons. Go Hillary or McCain if she doesn't get it. HOORAH.

Borinqueno in Texas for Hillary.

Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!!

Go Hillary 08!!

PUERTO RICO FOR HILLARY!!

Obama was there a while back for a fundraiser and he did not talk to the people there or the media. So he was just interested in the money and nothing else. PR said to obama stay out do not come here again.
Funny he will go back I'm sure they will give him the cold shoulder.
The PR governor endorsed obama but he is under investigation. Another boneheaded mistake obama? He keeps attracting these corrupt people everywhere he goes.

Go Hillary

Nice~!! letting a territory decide who the nominee will be…that's even worse than the superdelegates….!!

Latinos unite behind the true champion of the people- Hillary.

She will leave no one behind. She will represent us ALL.

Obama, well, clearly he has his agenda.

Let's right this wrong and bring Hillary back. The democrats in Florida and Michigan had their vote stolen from them. You can show your solidarity with those voters and restore truth and justice.

Muchas Gracias.

. . .That could only mean one thing: OBAMA"S ON THE PROWL.

Yes we can!

Latinos unite.

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing. He'll find some way to disown you in the end.

Hillary is tried and true. She has never wavered in her quest to stand up for the people and to work for the disenfranchised and to make us a better people. A better people is a people without hatred and division. A better people is a people who work for justice for all.

Peace

PR can change to primaries and change their primaries' date.

Ok all my fellow Democrats..people its time everyone took a good look at ourselves and asked do we need to take the whitehouse back..If the answers yes then we all should vote and stand behind Hillary …If not JOHN MCcain will waltz right in and sit right down in the oval office…The writing is on the wall people….Do you think for a minute all those people at cnn and msnbc is really that fond of Obamo?..NOT!!…cant you see theyre baiting everyone then come december watch them all be singing a different tune..most all on msnbc are republicans…And god only knows what jack cafferity is!!!

PR can change to primaries and change their primaries' date.
WHY CAN'T FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN CHANGE THEIR PRIMARIES' DATE?
WHY DO THEY NEED TO HAVE THE APPROVAL OF BOTH CANDIDATES?
I thought the election should be ALL ABOUT PEOPLE!!!!
LET THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN HAVE A SAY.
HEAR THEIR VOICES !!!!
BARACK OBAMA HAS BEEN IGNORING THEIR VOICES, AND NO ONE DO A THING.
WHY?
WHY?
IS THIS STILL THE "DEMOCRAT" PARTY?

When they say Obama is ahead in the National Polls, thats not correct. THEY DIDN"T COUNT MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA!!!

Some of you Obama people get on my last nerve. If he is so good and everyone likes him he will take the Puerto Rico Primary, primary or caucus. The Obama supporters seem to forget, there won't be ANY CAUCUSES in the General. What is wrong with Puerto Rico wanting to change to a primary, it's easier. You go in, vote, and leave, and you don't have to sit around for hours arguing over who you think is best and all that crap. Take note Obama fans, their won't be any caucuses in the general election to save him.

I told my kids that anyone that through 20 years of racially hateful speech have no standing to preach racial unity. Especially if they raised their kids in that church by choice.The friends you keep tells people a lot about you,they are the relatives we have chosen for our family.I'll never vote for a bigot.White or black.Say no to bigotry,say no to Obama.

The Clintons are in for a surprise if they think Puerto Rico is like texas, california, and new mexico. Puerto Ricans are different than the hispanics that have already voted for the Clintons.

Puerto Rico for Obama.

lol @ all you ignorant people saying Clinton did this.

If you had been paying attention at all, Puerto Rica had sent in the request to move from caucus to primay a month or so ago. They realized the caucus system is flawed, and that the caucus system itself disinfranchises hundreds if not thousands of voters. The Texas two step is proof of that. Also, Hillary still won the popular vote overall even counting the caucus, yet Obama won more delegates. Another reason delegate counts are worthless.

Hillary had nothing to do with Puerto Rico turning from caucus to primary. They just realized how undemocratic the caucus's were.

What is wrong with it being changed, I think primaries are better. This coming from the first caucus in the nation. Attending caucus is time consuming and shift workers can not participate. Yes I go to raise my hand, however it does take alot of work (getting the kids feed before we go, having things there t keep them occupied in the 2 or more hours it takes, hoping that it gets done before I have to leave to put the kids to bed, arranging to leave early from work to attend). Primaries are a true democratic process when every vote counts, caucus are for activist and young people. I could love Iowa to have a primary even if we lost our first in the Nation status.

Al Clinton Supporter like me. PL of FL, MI

We need to vote McCain if Obama chosen by Dems

News Flash……

"Puerto Rico Governor Endorses Obama … note that early last month, Puerto Rico Governor Anibal Acevedo-Vila officially endorsed Barack Obama for President"

As the daughter of a Latino father and an African American mother. I know that my family on the island will vote and will support Obama. We have a similar heritage and we are a loyal people.

Obama 08′

Geez I bet the Clintons had something to do with that concidering she does better in primary's. Here you go again changing the rules!! Go figure politics as usual. Why does Puerto Rico have more delegates than 34 states? How stupid is that.

To those of you how think Obama is so smart the fact is if you don't vote in the Primary, you don't get to vote in the general, so Obama will never win in FL or MI because it don't count and the dumb butt keeps rejecting a revote, so the fact is the Rep. will have it in FL and MI, Obama is so Smart,he will lose without a doult, if it comes to it.

If the rules can be changed for Puerto Rico. The same should apply to Florida and Michigan. The Democratic party is totally screwd up. Fortunately moving the Puerto Rico Primary up will have no or little impact on the final outcome of which candidate takes more delegates from that state. Unfortunately for the democratic party's refusal to have a revote in Florida and Michigan will have a direct impact on which democratic candidate will have more delegates and popular vote. The democratic party's decision not to have a new primary in Florida or Michigan will hand the white house back to the republicans. More Iraq, more job losses, more mortgage crisis, more contracts to foreign countries and a definite RECESSION if not A DEPRESSION.

Yes, it is all part of Hillary's plan. One question for Obama supporters. If the race is "over" why does it matter? Could it be that the race is not over? Hmmmmmmmmmm.

It really is sad to watch the Democrat candidates sniping at eachother through their surrogates. It reminds me of the old saying "your friends are your worst enemies". What's going on is also reminiscent of the Fall of the Roman Empire where the senators were so busy infighting that they failed to notice that their control of their empire was crumbling all around them. Take warning.

More breaking the rules and using every tactic to win–switching for caucases to primary. Stop it Clintons!

Good for Puerto Rico!

There will be no unity as long as the divisive figure of Barack stalks politics 08.

It would be nice to believe the Barack myth. Barack has spun a story that feeds the American hero/messiah complex.

If he could delete his 20 year soaking in the mentor/pastor relationship of Rev. Wright, it might have credibility. However, because Barack chose to embrace the ideology of black liberation his beautiful words of one America in a presidential run lack authenticity and integrity.

If Barack wants to be part of a movement to lift up blacks, the bully pulpit of the presidency is not the place to do it. The presidency is the bully pulpit to lift up all people. Barack should seek a new mentor who can give him discernment/wisdom on a broader scale for a few years. Then his gift of Hawaiian "Talk Story" might be more appropriate for a presidential run.

Barack is premature in his presidential run. His racial conflict is conflicting America. It is not primarily race but head and heart that are conflicted. We want to believe the myth but our head says, wait a minute!

Not in 2008 or 2012 Barack!

Hillary the HOPE of 08 or McCain!

All the Latinos I know are voting for Obama.
El Pueblo quiere un Cambio.
Si se puede mi hermano.

Viva Barack Obama

I highly doubt that Hillary had anything to do with changing the date.

Well, there went my slim hope that South Dakota and Montana might count for once. We'll just get out of your hair DNC and contemplate how states that don't try to set themselves above the others get lost in the cracks.
Oh and everyone pittying Mi and Fl, just remember this is all their doing and besides they're getting all the attention they wanted in the first place. Trust me when all the Noms are settled these two states will get more attention before November than any others. Their voices will probably be louder than anyone elses.

Hillary Clinton will win Puerto Rico by a landslide. The puertoriquenos will not vote for a black man like Obama. A man who does not have experience, who lies about the inflamatory commnets by his Pastor, a man who has not done nearly as much as the Clintons have done for the latino community. You are done in Puerto Rico Obama!!!

For those of you questioning the legality of the change, read this:

"Under Puerto Rico law, the event must be held on the first Sunday in June, but the original plan mistakenly listed the June 7 date, which is the first Sunday in June 2009, not 2008."

Clearly there was a typo, or a negligent person handling the officiating paperwork. You can't hold their own law against them. And by the way, MI & FL moved their primaries up because they wanted to have a say in how the primaries turned out SOONER than the Super Tuesday vote (kind of like a "ME FIRST" attitude). The rule to strip them of their delegates was voted on LAST YEAR! They CHOSE to accept the consequences of moving their primaries.

Now they can deal with it!

Puerto Ricans, I urge you to support Obama, for all his fairness & generosity.

It apears the DNC can make no mistake. what a bunch of IDIOTS. It's O.K. for them to make a mistake that would have us holding the Puerto Rico caucas in JUNE OF 2009. Stupidity, Mistake , a year ahead of themselves. Whatever!!! Give Florida and Michigan The same respect and allow a revote. This whole thing has been a total disaster, and the members of the DNC are completely responsible for this all mess . One way or another the DNC should figure out a way to have a redo in Florida and Michigan if they really care about the party and the voters in those states.

LatinoNation, everyone knows you are a white hillbilly rube, so shut up. Has anyone noticed that most Hillary supporters can't spell the name of their own candidate, have poor grammar, can't spell, and can't form complete sentences. They also can't watch anything longer than 30 seconds without becoming bored or distracted. I am sensing a pattern here, these are the same people that voted W. into the whitehouse in 2000 and 2004! Don't lay the smack-down if you can't take the smack-down!

Latinos for Clinton, yeah!

Clinton had 8 wholeyears to reform health care in america. She stalled it.

She is now forcing the american and democrats, to give her another 8 years to toy with. Clinton, is playing you as she played bill clinton to give her the health care against his will.

Dont' buy it.

She can't handle not having her candy.

Tell Al and Jesse until they demand a re-vote in Fla. and Michigan they are and continue to be phonies. Back in 2000 and 2004 all you heard was their demands over voters rights. Now that their fellow Black man is involved they say play by the rules. They owe Bush and the republicans an apology. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Double standards is the only race issue that concerns white voters ask them hyonestly. Don't ask with all you Liberal white guilt so afraid that an honest question might get you called a racist. Poverty is the big issue not race.

Yes all Latinos should vote for Clinton, Puerto Rico is Clinton territory - Go Hillary go

Thank you Peurto Rico, no more caucuses. Let all the people vote, not just the few who either don't even work or can afford to take off to stand around for hours to caucus. Hillary won Nevada where people could vote at work. A voting booth is how all states should be. I could not phycially stand for hours to vote, thus I would be disenfranchised.

hERES A THOUGHT. AL GORE FOR PRESIDENT. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT HE COULD ACTUALLY BECOME PRESIDENT? YES IT IS. THHINK ABOUT IT. ALL OF YOU SO CALLED POLITICAL EXPERTS, FIGURE THIS ONE OUT. IT CAN HAPPEN AND IT WOULDNT TAKE MUCH FOR IT TO HAPPEN. I TELL YOU THAT IT IS POSSIBLE.

Sozzi

thanks for saying what I thought. If she thinks she will win Puerto Rico, she is really dreaming. I have faith in my Puerto Rican brothers ansd sisters. Thanks for driving it home. I hope Hillary loses exponentially. Si podemos!! Si podemos. I agree Latinos in New Mexico, FLA, and Texas are different. Truth be told Hillary cares no more for Latinos than she does African Americans (AA) or any people of color, and we no longer care for her either. She no longer has the support of AA so she now courts Latinos. Latinos wake up! She is a fraud and is hoodwinking you also. She will do ANYTHING to get back into the White House. Please God, do NOT allow her back. No more Bushes or Clintons.