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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Doesn’t matter. People prefer fits of anger to rational immigration policy.
There is NO way to send 14 million people anywhere. Even discussing such a foolish proposition makes the entire right look obstinate and irrational.
Capitalist Hog on November 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM
Must be the ones born in stupid Amerika. The ones who suffered under the Cuba thugs are older and dying out.
Schadenfreude on November 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM
NO one discusses it – so don’t inent it. You’re talking to yourself.
Schadenfreude on November 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM
I disagree. It’s quite simple. “Can I see proof of citizenship? No? This way please…Thank you”
Doesn’t have to be all 14 million at the same time.
michaelthomas on November 9, 2012 at 12:43 PM
A guinea pig in every pot!
tom daschle concerned on November 9, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Obama captured 48% of Cuban-Americans in Florida, highest ever for Dem
Hmmm, I see Mr. Rubio (the Golden Child of the GOP)
really had some sway, huh?
ToddPA on November 9, 2012 at 12:44 PM
I would never hire an illegal-immigrant. Document verification is easy. Background checks are even easier. As an employer I put my name on the line with every employee.
I don’t understand why more anger is not directed at companies and owners who hire illegals. Going after bad employers would not stop me from sending monthly and annual dues for several organizations national and local.
Lying to me about Romney’s prospects is the reason I’m saving $1200 next year.
Good immigration policy will get my attention BECAUSE IT IS A WINNING ISSUE. With good policy my taxes will go down, my life will improve. Until then I’m having to work harder than I should to live how I like.
George P Bush adds to the dynasty, ugh. But all the Bush men understand the importance of good immigration policy.
Capitalist Hog on November 9, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Don’t you just love all this racial harmony that Our Great Uniter has ushered in?
“We’ve finally become the divided states. A nation built on freedom, fear, and hate, the denotation of Irony …”
Irony indeed.
jawkneemusic on November 9, 2012 at 12:46 PM
So the GOP policy going forward should be that every twenty years we pass out amnesty to 14 million or however many happen to be here at the time? And we’re foolish, obstinate and irrational? Will you be hosting them in your home?
rhombus on November 9, 2012 at 12:46 PM
This is true. A lot of people have been saying that the current crop of Cuban Americans have become Americanized and don’t know Cuba from Timbuktu and are even wearing Che shirts.
MobileVideoEngineer on November 9, 2012 at 12:46 PM
No it never comes up. Too funny. Literally one minute passes before you’re proved wrong.
How do you walk around with an anvil on your shoulders?
Capitalist Hog on November 9, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Enforcing our own laws would have them sending themselves somewhere else.
Wait..what? Laws?
Bishop on November 9, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Remember when ICE used to storm business facilities with large numbers of illegal alien employees? When did that stop?
michaelthomas on November 9, 2012 at 12:49 PM
That is how we lost Florida. It was only 50000 in margin for the entire state. The Cough/Cough, lack of absentee ballots for our military did not help either.
mwbri on November 9, 2012 at 12:50 PM
red herring
What you describe is not good policy. Redress is unavoidable. Ongoing amnesty or open-borders is not redress.
It’s obvious that you have only ever really discussed these issues on a blog. You’re not interested in a real discussion. You want to show off your conservative tail-feathers for the clucking hens. Your ignorance bores me.
Capitalist Hog on November 9, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Actually you were talking to yourself. You had the FIRST comment. I saw it and responded.
michaelthomas on November 9, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Who cares about directing emotion? How about going after the companies and owners who rent to illegals?
rhombus on November 9, 2012 at 12:54 PM
I’ve extremely disappointed at comments about hispanics. I’m a republican but after some of the stuff I have read…..I really can’t blame Hispanics for voting Dem.
terryannonline on November 9, 2012 at 12:54 PM
NCIS is not real life, dude.
Law-enforcement is different than prosecution. In order to round-up people they have to be prosecuted and caught. Imagine devoting your household resources to searching for every person you’ve lost touch with in the past 15 years or so. Imagine that finding all of those people would bring you ultimate happiness.
Even the prospect of lifelong happiness does not make such an undertaking any easier, does it?
Capitalist Hog on November 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM
They vote dem because they love big government. It’s no different than those who flee states like California because they’re falling apart then vote for the same in their new state. Handing out amnesty is not going to convert all these illegals into conservative republicans. We give them amnesty, dems take the credit and will then have nearly 14 million new voters added to their many self interest groups.
jawkneemusic on November 9, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Totally O/T Is anyone else having script issues with the ObamaCare thread. I cannot post there or read early comments without getting a script error message. I have no idea what that means. I can post on other threads, but not that one. Weird.
txmomof6 on November 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM
No one has said anything remotely offensive about hispanics. Are you weepy today?
Obama was running commercials in mexico about food stamps, specifically how to get on them. In Mexico
tom daschle concerned on November 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Romney screwed himself bigtime on immigration going to the right of it to scumbag perry. It cost him Florida. No endorsements from Rubio and Bush will fix tat
Flapjackmaka on November 9, 2012 at 1:01 PM
Ya know I think I am going to dust off my old tin foil hat and say that there must have been some a lot of fraud going on. Obama got less than McCain did in this election and yet I still cannot believe he did this well. Either that or I cannot believe the electorate is this stupid.
melle1228 on November 9, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Perhaps we could give amnesty on the condition that they have to live in a blue state.
txmomof6 on November 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM
Really? Do you really think that, absent sending some sort of LEO organization to them, with orders to carry them, in whatever manner necessary, to the border and over it, illegal aliens from Mexico are just going to pick up, pay their own expenses and those of their families for travel back to Mexico, a place where their economic future is certainly worse than even if they continue working on the black market in America?
A place where… and let’s be honest here… for most of these people, even if we threw them in prison, them and their families, they’d be better off, economically, than as free people in Mexico. Because, at the end of the day, it’s an American prison, where they will at least be guaranteed shelter from the elements, and three nutritious meals a day. Oh, and in such an American prison, la eMe doesn’t pose as big a threat to their lives as it does in Mexico.
You really think there is a way to get them back there, short of physical repatriation?
Stop. Just stop…
JohnGalt23 on November 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM
It’s combination of fraud, stupid voters, whites staying home, illegals voting etc.
jawkneemusic on November 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM
I guess more and more Cubans are too young to remember how bad Communism is.
WannabeAnglican on November 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Cubans escape the slavery of communism under Castro, blacks are liberated from slavery by a Republican president, then they vote themselves back into slavery by supporting a Socialist president.
Jesus Christ are people in this world stupid.
CrustyB on November 9, 2012 at 1:05 PM
I really don’t know what you are talking about. And seriously if hispanics want to vote Dem they are as stupid as women, blacks, gays and any other special interest groups. Dems give lips service and take these groups for granted. They do NOTHING for these groups and are even more out and out racist than Republicans. I mean fighting voter ID? How racist do you have to be to say that a minority is too stupid or poor that they can’t fricking drive themselve down to the DMV and obtain and ID that they need for everyday life?
melle1228 on November 9, 2012 at 1:05 PM
There are plenty of conservatives Hispanics like me. But the anger I see towards Hispanics in conservative websites aren’t helping.
terryannonline on November 9, 2012 at 1:05 PM
I say next time we run a hispanic black women and show just how misogynistic and racist the Democratic party is when they start calling our candidate names… Just my take on things.
melle1228 on November 9, 2012 at 1:09 PM
No one has expressed anger towards hispanics you weepy in need of more or less, IDK, medication whiner.
This is about BREAKING THE LAW. lawbreakers, anarchists, illegals.
Take a break, sit the next few plays out, rub your rosary.
tom daschle concerned on November 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM
17% of all US taxpayers are not in compliance with tax laws. Obviously there is NO way to send them all to prison for tax evasion. Let’s just grant them all amnesty, then all those people who commit fraud will now be on our side in the next election. (Side benefit, we can shut down the IRS.)
Any other laws you’d like to nullify? Let’s get a big voting bloc together and start our petition now!
CJ on November 9, 2012 at 1:13 PM
So go vote dem then, most of the comments you’ve run across are likely geared to the law breakers, and they are law breakers.
If it’s racism you saw then you need to break into a few liberal websites, their racism is just as bad as anything you will find at a conservative site.
Bishop on November 9, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Law-enforcement is different than prosecution. In order to round-up people they have to be prosecuted and caught. Imagine devoting your household resources to searching for every person you’ve lost touch with in the past 15 years or so. Imagine that finding all of those people would bring you ultimate happiness.
Even the prospect of lifelong happiness does not make such an undertaking any easier, does it?
Capitalist Hog on November 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Your posts on here reach breathtaking levels of Stupidity.
You seem to imply that we, as a society, simply DO NOT
have the resources to address this issue. Ever hear of ICE?
Do you know what ICE is?? Do you know what sector of our
society ICE operates in??
ICE IS PART OF OUR GOVERNMENT. It was created to deal with issues
such as this. Your tired cop out attitude is welcome on leftist
sites where NOTHING is fixable.We just throw up our hands and
say “well, it WOULD be nice if we could address this”.
My tax dollars, your tax dollars, and everyone’s tax dollars
PAY for this agency. Get your head out of your azz and
address this topic, instead of scolding everyone for
applying Conventional Logic to a problem facing our Nation.
ToddPA on November 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Here’s a great idea: Have cops ask that question if they’re suspicious during a traffic stop. No way anyone would scream racism and the federal government would never sue over such a thing.
Odysseus on November 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM
Alright then, ignore the problem, legalize all of them and wait for the next wave. And the next wave. And the next.
Either we have national sovereignty or we don’t and unless you want the entire downtrodden world to flow over our borders, you better get your shiite together and come up with a plan.
Bishop on November 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM
Take your false white guilt and your room-temperature IQ elsewhere, weepy little lady.
MelonCollie on November 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM
As if YOU have any room to talk!
Tell us your brilliant plan again? Because short of mile-long trains packed with deportees all you’ve got is bluster and fantasy.
MelonCollie on November 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Unless they’re ‘terrorist’ bloggers, in which case we can just have President “I killed Bin Laden with my bare hands” authorize a drone strike on anybody on his ‘kill list.’
Good Solid B-Plus on November 9, 2012 at 1:21 PM
The Obama regime has done a few of those raids, but they don’t arrest and deport the illegal aliens. They give them a flyer so they know where to go to collect welfare.
Wigglesworth on November 9, 2012 at 1:21 PM
So prosecute the ones you do catch and crush those American citizens and businesses which look the other way when they are caught.
I don’t this simplified approach doesn’t have the requisite amount of concerned liberalness involved, that we’re supposed to embrace all of our “brothers” with Love, American Style, but the inn is full and the cupboard is bare.
The worst thing is, all of you who bleat the loudest about kumbaya with the world are the ones who would and do scream the loudest when your own jobs disappear to some guy who just jumped the border.
Bishop on November 9, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Rub my rosary? Hey I’m not Catholic you dumb prick.
terryannonline on November 9, 2012 at 1:26 PM
A fence, the same one that has been promised for decades, crushing enforcement of the immigration laws we’ve had on the books forever, and if necessary, mile-long trains packed with deportees.
Or my other plan: Ignore our laws in the name of brotherly love, let everyone in and have you pay for their care and feeding, maybe have a family live with you in your place.
You’re all for that, right? What? You’re sort of strapped right now, you would love to help, but you just can’t? Huh.
Bishop on November 9, 2012 at 1:27 PM
So basically, pray for a promise to finally come true and laws to finally be enforced more than once in a blue moon.
That’s not a plan, bucko. That’s wishing.
I don’t know nasty enough words for simpering little b!tches like you.
I have less than $700 in the bank and need most of it for the high-stakes certifications to finally get my tech degree. Now that you’ve lost – AGAIN – to the worst president in history, it’s an open question whether i’ll ever have any employment.
MelonCollie on November 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Jeez, please lay off terryann. She’s right. There is a problem with the tone of some conservative commenters and candidates on the imigration issue. You can promote good principles without coming off as jerks, and that’s what we need to do if we don’t want to become obsolete. It’s a problem of PR, not ideology.
juliesa on November 9, 2012 at 1:36 PM
?Rub my rosary? I’m not even Catholic. Lol!
terryannonline on November 9, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Awwww…you mad bro? You seem mad.
Don’t worry, if your “certifications” don’t pan out you can always get a job working the border turnstiles in the brave new world you support.
Better hope one of those illegals isn’t going for the same job as you though, because they might get it and then you would have to say “oh well”.
Bishop on November 9, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Half were illegals, the other half were dead.
The Rogue Tomato on November 9, 2012 at 1:50 PM
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