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Incumbent Republican Governor Eloy Inos was re-elected, facing two independent challengers and one Democratic challenger. The next lieutenant governor was elected on the same ticket, with incumbent Jude Hofschneider not running for re-election. As no candidate got a majority, a runoff was held on 21 November, 2014.[2] This election was the first time since 2001 that the Covenant Party, which dissolved in 2013, was not on the ballot. It also marked the first time since 1999 that only two political parties would compete in the elections, marking a return to a two-party system similar to that of the United States rather than the multi-party system, which began back in 1999 when the now dissolved Reform Party was first formed and went on to win a stunning victory by managing to elect Senator Ramon Deleon Guerrero to the senate,[3] that had defined the CNMI for nearly 15 years. The Democratic Party would not win a single seat in the legislature until 2020 and would not compete for the governorship until 2022.
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Transcription
The United States is, shockingly, a bunch of states that are united.
It was just 13 to start with,
but as time marched on, the border marked west,
bringing us to today and the 48 contiguous states
plus Alaska and Hawaii.
They're usually drawn in these little boxes,
not to to scale because Hawaii is in the middle of a
vast ocean of deadly nothing-ness,
and Alaska is monstrous.
Unlike other unions, where members can leave
if they so choose,
statehood is eternal.
Even for you, Texas.
Now, how the federal government works
is a story for another time,
but at the moment, all you need know is that
Congress, where national laws are written
is made of representatives who are sent
from the states.
Now, there are some non-state gaps not
visible on this map.
The first is Washington D.C.,
the nation's capital.
which is a stateless limbo land
between Maryland and Virginia.
As D.C. is a city without a state,
it puts her under the control of Congress.
Meaning all the other states get the final
say on how D.C. is run,
while she doesn't get a vote in anything.
It didn't matter when the District of Columbia
was basically uninhabited,
but since more people live in D.C. now
than do in a couple of states
it's an uncomfortable arrangement.
The other gaps on this map are the
American Indian reservations.
which are numerous.
The United States kind of administers them
while sort of treating them as foreign nations
which means you could draw the state
boundaries to look like this
because the reservations are kind of
apart from those states.
But the American Indian reservations
are such a full of asterisks
(O' so sensitive situation)
it's also better as a story for
another time.
Gaps aside, the continent (and Hawaii) is
mostly straight-forward.
But there's more than just these
United States.
When the U.S. ran out of lands
to manifest destiny,
she learned from the best
and teritorified a whole bunch of islands.
First up: Puerto Rico -
an organized, unincorporated territory
of the U.S.
This means she's self-governing(to some extent)
and that all the U.S. constitution doesn't
automatically apply
on the island.
Now, 3.7 million people live in Puerto Rico
which is 91% of the people living
on U.S. Territorial islands
and more people than live in
21 of the states.
And, the U.S. treats Puerto Rico
as a state in almost all but name
which possibly soon
she will be anyway
bringing the number of stars to a
nice, even, 51?
But Puerto Rico isn't the only
organized, unincorporated territory.
There's also Guam, which was acquired
in the Spanish-American war,
along with Puerto Rico, there's
the Northern Mariana Islands,
taken from Japan during World War II,
and the U.S. Virgin Islands taken from
nobody -- Denmark sold her.
The people in these territories are
American citizens.
In most ways, the territories are
just like D.C.
Congress can override their
local governments and they don't have
representation because no state-tation.
But otherwise, it's America.
Actually, the territories and D.C. do
get to elect congressional representatives
who attend all of the meetings
but just can't vote in any of them.
which is either the worst job in the world
or the best job in the world
depending on the kind of person who gets it.
Also, since votes for president are based
on state population,
citizens in the territories can't vote.
Which as mentioned in a previous video
leads to the weird situation that
Americans who live in foreign countries
can vote for president in the
state where they last lived.
While Americans who live in America,
just in a territory,
cannot.
Along with these unincorporated organized
territories
there are also unincorporated unorganized
territories.
Actually, quite a few.
They are Howland Island,
Navassa Island,
Wake Island, Jarvis Island,
Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef,
Midway Reef,
Serranilla Bank and Bajo Nuevo Bank.
Most of these were acquired under the
delightfully named Guano Islands Act
when the U.S. decided she wanted
a bunch of islands filled with bird poop.
No, really, the U.S. just straight up
wrote a law to declare those islands
were now hers.
Unorganized, in this system, means there's
no local government on these islands
because no one lives in these places.
Some of them are barley above the water line.
Now, the weird category is unorganized
incorporated territories
of which there is one: the Palmyra Atoll.
claimed by the U.S. after the totally
peaceful annexation of Hawaii.
They're currently an uninhabited
nature reserve.
But, incorporated means the U.S.
constitution applies here.
To who? The Palmyra Atoll is like that
question about a tree falling in the forest.
If there are no people for the constitution
to apply to,
does the constitution still apply?
Yes.
This means if a foreigner gives birth
on this uninhabited strip
and doesn't die from the nature,
their child would be an American citizen.
Now, this category is empty.
It's where territories go
before they become states.
When basically the Constitution fully
applies
and it was last occupied by Hawaii.
We've gone full circle but there is
one territory we've left out --
American Samoa: home to 55,000 people.
Uniquely, American Samoans
don't get to be citizens
but instead are American Nationals.
They can live in the states but can't vote
in presidential elections
Unless they go through the immigration
process like any foreigner.
Even though in all other ways,
they're indistinguishable from citizens.
This is unique to American Samoa
and there seems to be no reason for it
other than that Congress has
gotten around to updating the system.
American Samoa is in the
no-government category, like it's lord of the flies
over there, which it obviously isn't.
So American Samoa with it's organized
government needs to go over here and
Puerto Rico, essentially a state,
needs to go over here
and the empty Palmyra Atoll needs to go
over here.
But, don't hold your breath for the
paperwork to make it's way through Congress
any time soon.
So, that's all the territories of the
United States, but there is one final
thing to talk about: three tiny nations --
Palu, the Marshall Islands and the
Federated States of Micronesia.
The last has a convenient domain name: .fm --
first choice of quality podcasts everywhere.
*hint, hint; click, click*
These are separate countries
with UN seats and everything
but they have a
"Compact of Free Association"
with the United States.
The deal is that the U.S. provide economic
support and military defense to the
compact nations in return for being allowed
to build military bases there.
Also, compact citizens can live and work
in the United States and vice versa.
The Americans wanting to live abroad:
you have three easy options.
So, that's America: 50 states,
many reservations, one district,
lots of islands territories, some even
with people and three tiny associated countries.
Background
The previous election was held in 2009 for a 5-year term,[4] in order to move all elections to even years. Covenant Party candidate Benigno Repeki Fitial was re-elected; his running mate Eloy Inos was elected to his first full term as lieutenant governor. Fitial resigned as governor in February 2013 in the face of impeachment hearings.[5] Inos thus became governor. In September 2013, he took steps to merge the Covenant Party with the territorial Republican Party, and ran for re-election as a Republican.[6]
Gubernatorial election
Eloy Inos, the incumbent republican governor was re-elected.[2] He was challenged by the speaker of the house and 2009 candidate, Heinz Sablan Hofschneider, former governor Juan Babauta (both running as independents), and democratic candidate Edward Masga Deleon Guerrero, former ports authority executive director.[7]
Candidates
Juan Babauta, former Governor (2002–2006), running as an independent[8]
Running mate: Juan Torres, former senator
Edward "Tofila" Masga Deleon Guerrero, former Ports Authority executive director, running as a Democrat[9]
Running mate: Danny Quitugua, former representative
Incumbent Delegate Gregorio Sablan was re-elected. He caucuses with the Democratic Party, but ran as an Independent. Sablan was challenged by democrat Andrew Salas, a former territorial representative and Commerce Secretary.[2] While not quite as massive as his 2012 victory, Sablan managed to win yet another landslide with nearly two-thirds of the vote over his Democratic competitor.[10]
All four mayoral posts were up for election across the Commonwealth.
On June 2, 2014, incumbent Saipan Mayor Donald Flores, then in his second term, died in office following a stroke.[12] Governor Eloy Inos appointed Marian Deleon Guerrero Tudela as acting Mayor of Saipan on June 3, 2014, to serve for the remainder of Flores' unexpired term, which would end in January 2015.[13][12] Ramon B. Camacho, the chairman of the Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council, served as acting mayor until Tudela could return from Arizona to take the oath of office.[13][14] Tudela had been living in Arizona at the time of her appointment in order to take care of her great-granddaughter.[14] Inos cited her second place finish in the 2009 mayoral election as a reason for her appointment.[12] She promised to retain all of Flores' existing staff during her term.[12] Marian Tudela was sworn into office on June 8, 2014, by Governor Eloy Inos during a ceremony at the Coral Ocean Point Resort.[14] She became the first female mayor of Saipan, as well as the first female mayor of any municipality in the Northern Mariana Islands in history.[14][15] Tudela declined to run for a full term.
This was the first election in which the Attorney General was an elected position.[16] Edward Manibusan, the former presiding judge of the Superior Court, defeated attorney Michael N. Evangelista handily. Manibusan won all but Tanapag and Rota in the general election.[17]
The general elections included three referendum questions, two of which involved legislative initiative amendments to the constitution. The constitutional amendments were to:
article XV, subsection 1(e) of the constitution to increase the minimum proportion of the Commonwealth general-revenue budget spent on primary and secondary education from 15% to 25%. H.L.I. 18-12.[18]
amend article XII, section 4 to redefine "persons of Northern Mariana Islands descent" as being someone who has "some degree of Northern Mariana Chamorro or Northern Mariana Carolinan blood", as opposed to the current requirement of at least 25% bloodline. H.L.I. 18-1.[1]
An amendment proposed by legislative initiative shall become effective if approved by a majority of the votes cast. N.M.I. Const. art. XVIII, § 5(b).
The other referendum asked voters whether a Constitutional Convention should be convened to propose amendments to the constitution. H.B. 18-5.[1]
The Constitutional Convention proposal would have required two-thirds of the votes cast to be approved. N.M.I. Const. art. XVIII, § 2(c).
Calling a Constitutional Convention (required two-thirds of votes cast)
7,859
66.01%
4,046
33.99%
Constitutional amendment on education spending (required majority of votes cast)
8,082
66.56%
4,060
33.44%
Constitutional amendment on the definition of descent (required majority of votes cast)
6,177
52.34%
5,624
47.66%
Notes
^ Ray Naraja Yumul resigned to run with Juan Nekai Babauta as his lieutenant governor in the 2014 Northern Mariana Islands general election. This seat was filled in a special election that coincides with the 2014 general election.
^Ramon Muna Dela Cruz switched his affiliation from Republican to Independent before the elections