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b_b  ·  4402 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Puerto Rico approves statehood

Will never happen. Their population is high enough that they would get maybe 5 congressional seats and 7 electoral votes, all of which would likely be Democratic. No Republican controlled House will entertain that idea, not in a million years. Maybe if Dems take back the House in 2014, but presidents usually lose seats in the mid terms.