Cuban-American support split

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tue, Jun. 08, 2004

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN POLL

Cuban-American support split

BY LESLEY CLARK
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Democrat John Kerry enjoys a commanding lead over President Bush among Cuban Americans born in the United States and a decided edge among Cubans who arrived in the country after 1980, according to a new poll of Miami-Dade Hispanics that reveals deep divisions within a community traditionally viewed as staunchly Republican.

The poll, commissioned by a Democratic group that is targeting Hispanic voters, shows Kerry with a 58-32 percent advantage among Cubans born in the United States, suggesting that the Massachusetts senator has an opportunity to siphon potentially critical support from Bush.

But the poll, to be released today, shows Bush crushing Kerry among the largest -- and perhaps most politically active and vocal -- group of Cuban-American voters: those who arrived before the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Those voters -- who make up about two-thirds of all Cuban-American registered voters in Miami-Dade, according to the survey -- back the Republican incumbent overwhelmingly, 89 to 8 percent, with just 3 percent undecided.

Among all Cuban-American voters, Bush leads Kerry 69 to 21 percent, with 10 percent undecided -- a massive lead, but a decline from 2000 when more than eight of 10 Cuban Americans helped Bush narrowly defeat Al Gore in Florida and win the White House.
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[Mika]

1. Here's a graph from the survey

Note to the Dem party members.... wake up!



Mr Kerry - Tear down the wall



Kerry policy on Cuba:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8848574.htm

Cuba will remain under US sanctions

We will still be travel banned unless our travel is deemed politically worthy by US gov jackboots

[Mika]

2. Kick

:kick:

Mr Kerry, Tear down the wall!

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Kerry's stated policy on Cuba:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8848574.htm

Cuba will remain under US sanctions

We will still be travel banned unless our travel is deemed politically worthy by US gov jackboots

[struggle4progress]

4. Fascinating graph! Thanks!

[Say_What]

3. Bushes anti-Cuba policies don't help matters either

his sleezy attempt to further tighten the embargo and garner gusano votes is backfiring. But look at those numbers! Anyone of Cuban-American descent born here or those who came after Mariel are not the Repuke types. And those other Latinos from Colombia and Mexico aren't either. Sux to be the Ditzy-Balistic boys and Ros-Lithium today.


Aron Ido, 68, speaks during an interview Tuesday, June 1, 2004, as he leaves a restaurant in the Little Havana neigborhood of Miami. President Bush (news - web sites)'s policies toward Fidel Castro (news - web sites)'s regime and the war in Iraq (news - web sites) are threatening to fray traditionally solid Republican ties to Cuban-American voters, the largest segment of Florida's fast-growing Hispanic community. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)