Bill Clinton says Puerto Rico is key to wife’s claim to popular vote

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton took to rural Puerto Rico on Tuesday, urging islanders to turn out in large numbers in a weekend presidential primary to give his wife Hillary a majority of the popular vote cast in all Democratic contests.

Speaking before some 300 workers of a uniform factory in this town in Puerto Rico’s central mountains, Clinton said his wife as president would move to allow Puerto Ricans to determine whether they should retain their commonwealth status with the United States, become a state or be independent.

Puerto Ricans now have a rare chance to help decide which candidate will face presumed Republican nominee John McCain in November, and Clinton said their future is at stake in Sunday’s primary.”*

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