{"id":32294,"date":"2012-11-06T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T02:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32294"},"modified":"2012-11-06T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T02:42:51","slug":"orlando-sentinel-puerto-rico-statehood-vote-still-too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/06\/orlando-sentinel-puerto-rico-statehood-vote-still-too-close-to-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Sentinel: Puerto Rico statehood vote still too close to call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2014 A non-binding referendum on the nature of Puerto Rico&#8217;s relationship with the United States was too close to call early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls on the issue showed a 48 percent tie between those who favor modifying the current commonwealth model and those who prefer to maintain the present arrangement.Preliminary results on a second referendum question, which includes three options, show that 50 percent favor U.S. statehood, 32 percent support an enhanced commonwealth status and 4 percent want independence for the island, while the remaining 14 percent of those surveyed said they had left this issue blank on their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, the Caribbean island of 4 million people is the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a semi-autonomous extension of the U.S. mainland, its giant neighbor 1,000 miles to the northwest.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/breakingnews\/os-puerto-rico-statehood-referendum-20121106,0,4347053.story\" title=\"Puerto Rico\">here<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2014 A non-binding referendum on the nature of Puerto Rico&#8217;s relationship with the United States was too close to call early Tuesday. Exit polls on the issue showed a 48 percent tie between those who favor modifying the current commonwealth model and those who prefer to maintain the present arrangement.Preliminary results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32295,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32294\/revisions\/32295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}