"Democrats Breaking Republican Lock On Cuban Vote"
Democrats Breaking Republican Lock On Cuban Vote
By MICHAEL J. MISHAK at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/03/democrats-cuban-vote_n_4538089.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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Not long ago, any gesture of comity toward Cuba's communist government would have been greeted in Florida with a closed fist or a car bomb. But three generations on from the revolution, Garcia represents a new breed of Cuban-American, more interested in pragmatism and reconciliation than regime change and isolation.
That generational shift is at the heart of a realignment that could help change U.S. policy toward Cuba and reshape the political landscape in the country's largest swing-voting state.
The implications are particularly troubling for the GOP.
"It's very difficult for Republicans to win this state if they don't win a majority of the Hispanic vote," said Dario Moreno, a political scientist at Florida International University, "and to win a majority of the Hispanic vote, they have to do very well in the Cuban community
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