[NYTr] GOP Losing Support Among Cuban-Americans
 
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:39:19 -0500 (CDT)

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St. Petersburg Times via Huffington Post - Sep 16, 2007
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/16/cuban-support-for-gop-sof_n_64598.html

Cuban Support For GOP Softening

St. Petersburg Times

Younger exiles show less interest in Cuba and are more engaged in
national issues, Democratic pollster Sergio Bendixon says. "They give
Cuba almost no importance," he said. "For them it's education, health
care, and Hispanic issues such as immigration."

On top of that, new arrivals from the island are less enthusiastic
about isolating Cuba, in large part because they still have relatives
there. The number of Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade County who support
dialogue with the Cuban government has risen from 40 percent in 1991 to
65 percent, according to a poll by Florida International University. In
one recent poll conducted for the Democratic Party in two heavily
Cuban-American congressional districts in Miami-Dade County, voters
rated getting rid of Castro sixth among their concerns. Their top
priority was getting out of Iraq. 

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