largest swing state. And theyve usually backed the GOP and its hard vas5054a line against communist Cuba. But their numbers are dwindling, replaced by a younger generation, including more recently arrived Cuban immigrants, whose voting criteria are broader than Cuba policy. Polls, in fact, show most Cuban-Americans today believe the U.S. should lift its 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba.
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Florida political experts like Amandi consequently believe Rubio could be undermined by last weeks Cuban-American results. At first glance, it certainly doesnt help a politico when his own community breaks with him the way Florida Cubans didespecially when, in the Bendixen analysis, Obama actually captured 51% of the Cuban vote in the 48 Miami-Dade County precincts that have the highest Latino vote. (Cubans account for 75% of the countys Latino electorate.)
But, ironically, the Florida Cuban vote could also enhance the standing of Rubio, who last week autel maxidiag confirmed that later this month he ll visit Iowa, the first GOP caucus state for 2016. Obamas re-election is a vindication for Rubio as well as a rebuke: Throughout the campaign, he and his conservative mentor, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, whose wife is Mexican, warned Republican leaders that the party couldnt keep repelling Latinos at every turn, especially on immigration. If Rubio spins it right, the fact that a near-majority of his fellow Cuban-Americans rejected the GOP presidential ticketas well as the sudden post-election calls for immigration reform among chastened Republicans could bolster the I-told-you-so idea that hes the guy Republicans need to listen to four years from now.
Beyond Rubio, however, the other big question is what the Cuban-American vote means for Washingtons failed and fossilized Cuba policy. Obama has curried favor with Cuban-Americans by granting unlimited travel and remittances to Cuba for those with relatives on the island. Its doubtful Obama would go as far as lift the embargo,
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