Obama got a plethora of Cuban-American votes (47%?)
"Obama got a what ???"
So says the AP via FoxNews Latino:
"Obama won 47 percent of the Cuban vote in Florida that year (2008), according to data from The Associated Press."
Last I heard it was around 33 per cent?...
Maybe Henry can gear-up, slide down the pole and slap 'em straight.
Unreal.
Even 33% is scandalous. Very.
I think I can explain that 33%.
I always say that I can tell who will win every election, if I can just find out who my uncle Raul from Hialeah Gardens is voting for.
I would ask him, but he's been dead eighteen years come October.
Hey George...what happened to my avatar?
I'm like the invisible man.
I feel...Presidential.
Heh heh heh.
It must've disappeared when I changed your email address to your Babalu address. Go to Gravatar and register your new address. That should fix it.
It seems AP may be talking about Florida as a whole, the CHC blog about only Miami. Would that account for the difference? Are Cuban-americans outside of Miami much more liberal? I'm not a local and I do not follow local Floridian politics that closely, so I am just asking.
Fuzzy...it's not that Cuban Americans outside of Miami are much more liberals, it's that they are out of Miami because they are much more liberal.
Folks, I don't mean to be critical, but the rest of us are counting on saving our country this November so that number just can't happen again.
If you're in Florida, this goes double.
Henry (la cátedra in these matters) Gomez will (hopefully) soon explain.
Matt, calm down, amigo. For for the record, Americans of Cuban heritage voted against Obama by the highest margins of any ethnic group in the U.S. including "southern whites" (assuming that Cubans aren't white and mostly live in the south.)...you'll see when Henry bursts upon the scene...
FoxNews Latino is a very bias news site. They have bash Cuban American politician like Marco Rubio in the past. Sadly, I can't comment on that site because every time I do my so call latino brethren end up ganging up on me. So far I have the words Cuban trash, Gusano, Marielito, and Cuban Mafia in the list of words my so called latino brethren have used in the site to insult me after I commented on articles about Cubans. To bad for them that they can keep insulting us, but will be the one telling them bye bye after Cuban politician make sure that they are deported, then will see who will be the one laughing.
The poll cited in the piece is national. There is no doubt that when you look at Cubans outside of Florida that they tend to be more Democratic than Cubans in Florida. That may explain part of the discrepancy. My analysis was Dade County and so was the Bendixen poll that said 35% of Cubans went for Obama.
The Bendixen data is summarized here:
http://bendixenandamandi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Exit-Poll-of-Miami-Dade-County-for-the-2008-Election.pdf
Cuban born voters were 69% for McCain. U.S. born 'Cubans' were 61% for Obama. All Cubans were 35% for Obama (as Henry said above).
That is some crazy variation between the generations. Are U.S. born children of Cuban parents just rebelling against their parents, or what? Seriously. Why the disconnect?
If true, it's probably that they were swept up in the mass hypnosis of 2008. 8 years of Bush bashing etc. That's if you believe the numbers. As I said I looked at actual vote totals in the most Cuban precincts of Miami-Dade county and found that no more than 30% of total Cubans voted for Obama. If Bendixen is right and US born Cubans went for O at a 2-1 ratio then that means they weren't that big of a percentage of the electorate.
I believe it...many of them were my dear nephews! (mostly the female of the species)also--dare I admit it?--my daughter
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