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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsi want full forensics exams on touch screens. cubans voted for trump?
obama opened cuba, trump closed it. and cubanos voted for trump?
no fucking way.
a lot of ev is touch screens.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Statistical
(19,264 posts)They love a good fascists and they hate socialism/communism.
Biden = "socialism"
Trump = fascist
Cuban Americans vote very differently than other hispanic voters. In fact Trump getting middling support from Cubans in 2016 was likely because they didn't know how great of a fascist he was going to turn out to be.
mopinko
(70,077 posts)period. they want to travel there freely.
Statistical
(19,264 posts)In fact they are the descendants of the people who backed a fascist in Cuba and ran away when he was deposed.
If the models assumed Cuban (pro-fascist) Hispanics would vote the same as other Hispanics when Trump the Fascist was on the ticket well that was a mistake, a yuge mistake.
Earthshine2
(3,992 posts)>> They love a good fascists and they hate socialism/communism.
Yes, same for my Polish friends.
They seem to like the idea of a strongman as a leader, and they are used to politicians being corrupt. It's expected.
I think it's the same for the Cubans.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)I unfortunately am not at all surprised. In Cuba black Cubans to my understanding are treated like second-class citizens so they could also be pretty racist. A former African-American colleague of mine on the campaign I worked on called thems spicy whites
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Turin_C3PO
(13,964 posts)But I am reading that the Hispanic population in Florida has been inundated with GOP propaganda, calling us Castro-lovers, socialists, etc.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)The GOP has run a very successful smear campaign labeling Democrats at socialists in Miami-Dade. And Cuban Americans have massive fear of socialism.
mopinko
(70,077 posts)they want to be able to be reunite w their families.
they want to be buried there.
obama let them do that. you cant tell me they voted for trump.
BannonsLiver
(16,369 posts)mopinko
(70,077 posts)i just visited the graves of my great grandparents who came here from ireland on day of the dead.
i thought about whether they wished to be buried back home. but the cemetery they are in is almost all irish. so i think they are happy enough where they are.
you cant tell me there is a single immigrant group that doesnt want to be buried w their countrymen. and see their old home.
esp one that is only 90 miles away.
itcfish
(1,828 posts)Have always voted for Trump. They still blame Democrats for Castro. This is nothing new.
catbyte
(34,368 posts)trump is a master at fomenting hate/fear and he did a good job scaring the bejeezus out of them with all of his "socialism" lies. Castro overthrowing Batista fucked up Cubans for the foreseeable future.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)...is not a good thing to conservative Cubans.
mopinko
(70,077 posts)they dont want to go back and try to reclaim their land?
dont want to push the castro regime out.
bull pucky.
SKKY
(11,803 posts)...dead smack into the arms of fascism. Just saying.
mopinko
(70,077 posts)i just dont.
SKKY
(11,803 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)There are some staggeringly stupid people out there.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Latino voters are not one group.
mopinko
(70,077 posts)dosent pass the smell test.
Autumn
(45,049 posts)mopinko
(70,077 posts)not cubans.