Shifting Cuban voters could be the difference in Florida

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Shifting Cuban voters could be the difference in Florida
Sep 19, 3:27 AM EDT
By BILL BARROW
Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) -- Francis Suarez comes from a long line of civic and political leaders who have formed the Republican bedrock in south Florida's Cuban community for a half-century. Yet the 38-year-old Miami city commissioner hasn't decided whether he will vote for his party's presidential nominee.

And he's not alone. Many Cuban-Americans express solidarity with other Latin-Americans who see Donald Trump as anti-Hispanic. Still others hear in Trump's nationalistic populism echoes of the government strongmen they once fled.

"There are aspects of Trump that appeal to parts of the Cuban-American culture: strong leadership, the ability and willingness to say bold things," says Suarez, the son of a former Miami mayor and a potential chief executive himself. The concern, Suarez says, comes when Trump's boorishness, bullying and slapdash policy pronouncements "cross the line from bold to wild, unpredictable."

How those misgivings influence the votes of hundreds of thousands of Cuban-Americans could tilt the nation's most populous presidential battleground state and, depending on circumstances elsewhere, determine whether Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton wins the election.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CAMPAIGN_2016_FLORIDA_CUBANS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-09-19-03-27-50

[jtuck004]

1. An additional link, with more numbers.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-who-are-voters-general-vs-primary-20160816-story.html

[Judi Lynn]

3. Interesting article.Keeping fingers crossed.A lot has happened since Florida was stolen by Bush.n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Republicans have been dangling the idea of invading Cuba in front of exiles for generations....

They do the same with abortion to the evangelicals.

They have zero intention of actually giving either what they want.

It's all done for votes and it works so why give up the bait?

[underpants]

4. Spot on

"Those Miami guys, I hate tell them this but They're not going to get their grandfather's house back"

Said to me in a conversation at a Key West bar -Conch Republc-by a guy getting ready to sail to Cuba (his beautiful 40 foot sailboat was docked just outside) to trade medicine for art. At least that's what he told me.

[GOLGO 13]

5. Nothing about the thousands of Puerto Ricans that have left PR for Florida?

Puerto Ricans voted for Rubio bigtime. CHUMP has got a surprise waiting for him in Florida.

[rtracey]

7. hmmmm

Really.... Florida looks very close to Red in fivethirtyeight.com.....

[rtracey]

6. well

Well remember this.....if you vote this asshat into office, you will need to try and live in this country.

[geek tragedy]

8. Cuban Republicans are every bit the authoritarian assholes

as white/Anglo Republicans--they will find an excuse to fall in line and support the Drumpfenfuhrer.

[saltpoint]

9. Really liked this passage --

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"The concern, Suarez says, comes when Trump's boorishness, bullying and slapdash policy pronouncements "cross the line from bold to wild, unpredictable."

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Yes indeed.

[riversedge]

10. Hope the concern is very much concerned.