Mitt won all 20 of the island's delegates on Sunday. The landslide victory in context:
Puerto Rico usually supports the well-known national frontrunner in primaries and caucuses by enormous margins. George Bush won 99 percent of the vote there in 1992, Bob Dole 98 percent in 1996, George W. Bush 94 percent in 2000, and John McCain 90 percent in 2000. Romney characteristically underperformed a bit but still won by a large landslide. Romney also enjoyed the support of Gov. Gov. Luis Fortuno, the commonwealth's most prominent Republican and a rising conservative star.
No doubt Catholics, as elsewhere, also found Santorum's prissy puritanism repellent. Michael Barone questions Santorum's island strategy:
Why did Rick Santorum spend precious campaign time in Puerto Rico rather than Illinois? And why was he unprepared when he did so, to the point that he got into trouble by suggesting that if Puerto Rico becomes a state (as Fortuño and the PNP advocate) it would have to adopt English as its primary language. English is already one of Puerto Rico’s two official languages (the other of course being Spanish), but Puerto Ricans bristle at the thought that they would have to give up their everyday use of Spanish if the island became a state. … And anyone familiar with Puerto Rico politics could have told Santorum that island voters tend toward unanimity in these things and that his chances of winning delegates by holding Romney below 50% were negligible.
The Dish 