Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico…
31 May 2008 4:40 pm by Taylor Marsh
Guest post by Scan
Pretty amazing that Pat Robertson’s network has the best reporting on the Puerto Rico primary that I’ve seen thus far. But very little about this season has made sense…so whatever. Hillary is making stops in nine Puerto Rico cities on the eve of the election, by the way. Not too shabby.
This sounds like a lot of fun.
While the DNC meeting over the fate of Florida and Michigan goes on in the nation’s capital, Hillary Clinton is now in her third hour of an old-fashioned Puerto Rican caravan, winding her way through the streets to rally as many supporters as she can before tomorrow’s primary. It’s get-out-the-vote like we haven’t seen in the States, as the campaign now tells us the entourage has swelled from the dozen cars that gathered in Cataño to nearly 300 going through the outskirts of San Juan.
“This is a very traditional way of campaigning in Puerto Rico,” said Kenneth McClintock, president of the Puerto Rico Senate and a co-chair of Clinton’s campaign here. “We know it’s not done in the states. But Hillary is learning to campaign borriqua-style.”
…Clinton has remained outside for all but 10 minutes of the ride, even during a quick tropical shower.
“It’s a way that you can see a lot of people in a relatively short period of time and cover a lot of territory,” McClintock said, adding that he has seen far fewer negative reactions than usually par for the course. “She’s exhilarated.”
Beautiful scene.
Open thread.
