The FL GOP's worst fear come true: Cuban-Americans in Miami swung hard to Dems in 2012
Wed Nov 14, 2012 at 07:48 AM PST.
The FL GOP's worst fear come true: Cuban-Americans in Miami swung hard to Dems in 2012
by MattTX
The strong swing of Cuban-American voters to President Obama and Democrats was one of the most interesting and probably one of the most significant shifts in voting patterns in 2012.
For Republicans, that shift to Democrats is cause for panic and denial. After all, Cuban-Americans are just about the only group of minority voters who have ever backed Republicans. If even their taste for the GOP is waning, then Republicans are in worse shape than previously thought.
For Democrats, it is difficult to think of a strategically more important group with which we could possibly hope to make inroads than Cuban-Americans. Cuban-Americans are a growing group of minority voters, concentrated strongly in THE largest and most important swing state in the country—Florida.
If Democrats can consolidate and expand upon the gains made in 2012 with Cuban-American voters in the coming years, it will suddenly become much more difficult for Republicans to win Florida's all-important 29 Electoral votes. If Cuban-Americans even begin to regularly split their vote roughly 50-50—much less to vote outright for Democrats—then Florida could shift from a lean-red state to a lean-blue state.
More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/14/1160500/-The-FL-GOP-s-Worst-Fear-Come-True-Cuban-Americans-in-Miami-Swung-Hard-To-Dems-in-2012?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29
