Right, 97% shows that. I don't want Puerto Rico as a state either, but what you and this referendum's detractors are trying to pull by arguing turnout is transparent, desperate spin.
The GOP won big in the 2014 midterms, which had a record-low 36.4% turnout. Does that show the majority wanted Democrats? If you don't vote, your opinion doesn't matter.
Even for US presidential elections the % that choose not to vote is bigger than any single political party. It’s been that way for a long time, we haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout since 1908, most of the time it has been way less than that.
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