Hussein Might Find Florida ‘Muy Caliente’ For McCain In November
Florida, along with a handful of other states, is usually a very important and pivotal ’swing’ state in national elections … as we were ‘treated’ to in the 2000 Presidential race … and then, lamely again, in Ohio in 2004.
However, when it comes to the voting booth … What does the Cuban-American community of South Florida know that the rest of the country doesn’t know?
First public polls for South Florida Congressional districts
by Henry Louis Gomez (Babalu)
Democratic pollster Sergio Bendixen appeared on local Spanish TV tonight to announce the results of his poll of voters in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe and Collier Counties. Bendixen funded the poll himself.
Below are the results. I was taking notes and got all of the important numbers but missed parts of the ancillary data on some of the races.
District 18
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R): 58%
Annette Taddeo (D): 31%
Undecided: 11%
Among Cubans 77% said they’d vote for Ileana.
Ros-Lehtinen also has a substantial majority among non-Cuban Latin-Americans which is surprising considering that her opponent is Colombian.
District 21
Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R): 41%
Raul Martinez (D): 37%
Undecided: 22%
Among Cuban-Americans: 57% were for Lincoln Diaz-Balart, 27% for Raul Martinez, and 16% were undecided.
Among non-Cuban Latin-Americans 44% are for Lincoln Diaz-Balart, 31% are for Raul Martinez, and 25% are undecided.
Martinez leads among Anglos and Blacks which is why the race is close, though there’s a huge number of undecideds.
District 25
Mario Diaz-Balart (R): 44%
Joe Garcia (D): 39%
Undecided: 17%
Mario Diaz-Balart is currently getting 65% of the Cuban-American vote. I missed the numbers for Joedilocks and the undecideds.
Bendixen also mentioned that in Miami-Dade County Obama is leading McCain by 12 points but that Hispanics in the county are going to McCain by a ratio of 2-1.
What’s more only 18% Cuban-Americans are in the Obama camp.
I think although the District 21 and 25 races seem tight that it’s fair to say that we’re going to have to wait at least another two years for that elusive generational shift among Cuban-Americans to materialize. The Democratic candidate that’s doing the best among Cuban-Americans is Raul Martinez with 27% and he’s an extremely popular Cuban-American mayor from Hialeah which is almost completely contained by the district he running in.
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Kissing dictator (Chavez, Imadickhead, Assad, Castro) ass, a central plank of the Obambi plan, dosnt fly amongst people who have suffered under a dictator. Fuck Obama.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:48 amI have recently heard the same from several former residents of Cuba who live in Florida.
I also have heard similar viewpoints from clients who have lived under totalitarian regimes.
On a side note, in my neighborhood we had several families just lighting up the sky with fireworks. The largest displays were those that are foreign born.
Do we have to lose freedom before we can truly appreciate it?
July 8th, 2008 at 7:25 amI spent January in Florida, mostly in the Palm Beach, Sarasota, Naples areas. The Cuban Americans that I spoke with all state one thing, when it comes to POTUS, they will never forget the Bay of Pigs incident, when the democrat in charge screwed Cuba. They know what a Democrat in the White House would do to this country. If the rest of the hispanic community would listen, we would all be better off
July 8th, 2008 at 7:57 amBradW
A joke around here in South Florida is
“You never send Cubans in without air cover”
The fact is alot of Miami Cubans are short sighted about the whole Libertad issue.
The key is to let Americans go to Cuba and the whole thing will come around.
Steve
FYI some “dictatorships” actually help their people Franco’s Spain Hitler’s Germany and Putin’s Russia come to mind.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:35 amHey, thanks for the link.
Lili Marleen is insane. I have to challenge her assertion (too bad she’ll never see my reaction) that “The key is to let Americans go to Cuba and the whole thing will come around”.
Oh really? American tourists are going to disarm a totalitarian dictatorship by drinking mojitos and laying on the beach? What makes American tourists any different than Canadian and British tourists in this respect.
Lili Marleen’s statement is shallow and not supported by the facts.
Also some dictators have left their countries in better shape than when they took over but fidel castro is not one of them. Putin? I don’t know.
The fact is that even “benign dictatorships” are still dictatorships and I agree with the founding fathers that man is endowed by his creator with certain unalienable rights. Political liberty is one of them and dictatorships of any kind trample on those rights to degree or another.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 pm