"Cuba poll reflects changing political landscape in Florida"

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Cuba poll reflects changing political landscape in Florida


By Mimi Whitefield at the Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/11/3928653/cuba-poll-reflects-changing-political.html

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For many Cuban-Americans, the question of Cuba has become a balancing act as they weigh how to help the Cuban people against their own desire not to do anything that would prolong the Castro government.

And politically, the perception has been that maintaining a hard-line on Cuba and keeping the trade embargo against the island in place equals political support and campaign contributions in Florida.

But a poll released by the Atlantic Council late Monday shows that 64 percent of residents in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties favor normalization of relations with Cuba or more direct engagement.

In a smaller sampling, which means there could be a larger percentage of error, those of Cuban descent were more heavily in favor of normalization or engagement: 79-21 percent in Florida and 73-26 percent nationwide.


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[BlueStreak]

1. Which is why nobody should take Marco Rubio seriously

He represents the families of affluence from Cuba who were displaced by Castro. At one time, they ruled south Florida, but we're well into the second and third generations now. Your average 25-year-old from a Cuban family couldn't even tell you who Batista was and what the revolution was fought over.

Sorry, I have no interest in electing a President who has a grudge to settle. The last time we did that, we ended up with two wars that almost put us into the Second Great Depression, not to mention the human cost that happens when you have powerful people driven by revenge.