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Obama captured 48% of Cuban-Americans in Florida, highest ever for Dem

The figure for Mr. Obama is backed up by a national exit poll for media organizations that showed him winning 49% of the Cuban-American vote in the state. By comparison, he captured 35% of that vote four years ago. In 2004, Democrat John Kerry received 29% of the state’s Cuban-American vote, and in 2000, Democrat Al Gore won 25% of it.

The surprising development, given Cuban-Americans’ traditionally staunch support for the GOP, could help reshape U.S. policy toward Cuba.

Given his overwhelming support among Florida’s non-Cuban Hispanic voters, who make up a growing share of the electorate, Mr. Obama carried the state’s Latino vote overall by 61% to 39%, exceeding his margin in 2008 by seven percentage points. Together, both trends are accelerating a realignment of the state’s Latino vote, from once solidly Republican to now reliably Democratic, analysts say.

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From NRO where this topic is being seriously debated:

The Left understands much better the point of mass immigration. See, for instance, the comments of Eliseo Medina, vice president of the SEIU and an honorary chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America: “[Immigrants] will solidify and expand the progressive coalition for the future. . . . We will create a governing coalition for the long term not just for an election cycle.”

Conservatives shouldn’t be helping them do this.

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It’s a problem of PR, not ideology.

juliesa on November 9, 2012 at 1:36 PM

Mass media controls the PR and the mass media is the Left. We can stack the party full of Latinos and we will still be the party of Old White Guys (TM) who are rich, uncaring, and evil. And despite our best efforts, there will be some conservatives who will join the media’s chorus in saying we didn’t do enough and we didn’t reach out.

It would be good to expand our coalition with both white voters in Midwest states and Latinos. But in the end, we’ll probably have a better shot at the white voters since the Left and their propaganda organs have all but alienated and vilified them.

Punchenko on November 9, 2012 at 2:12 PM

Endorsements from Pimp with a Limp and Fidel. Cubans are predisposed to Communism so a vote for Bammy aint no big deal.

sauldalinsky on November 9, 2012 at 2:26 PM