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NewsCenter28

(1,835 posts)
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:08 PM Sep 2020

Biden just won Florida!

The Cuban Americans will be depressed and not turn out now that Judge Lagoa won't be around to "energize" them.

Politico will be sad also. They said that nominating Judge Lagoa guaranteed Toad FL's electoral votes and likely the election! Too bad so sad!

FL is likely ours now. Toad blew his last chance to win it by nominating what he presumes to be the safe choice instead.

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Biden just won Florida! (Original Post) NewsCenter28 Sep 2020 OP
I hope you are correct.. Stuart G Sep 2020 #1
He only received 56% of the Cuban vote in 2016 Under The Radar Sep 2020 #2
Hillary did an outstanding job of winning over Cuban-Americans who had previously been for the GOP. StevieM Sep 2020 #4
Yea, she nearly took half of it, it was the male Cuban that didn't want a female president... Under The Radar Sep 2020 #5
How important is the Cuban vote anyway? Aren't the younger Cubans a little more open to... TreasonousBastard Sep 2020 #9
I don't know ...will have to goggle it Under The Radar Sep 2020 #11
The young don't vote. nt BlueLucy Sep 2020 #15
Times have changed. cab67 Sep 2020 #7
I hope that they get out and vote Under The Radar Sep 2020 #10
I hate headlines like this Cosmo Blues Sep 2020 #3
Barrett is the only candidate that the GOP senate will confirm. Under The Radar Sep 2020 #6
I think you are right. This is a nomination to attempt to shore-up his base Buckeyeblue Sep 2020 #13
Yes and also get back evangelicals lost due to his vulgar methods Under The Radar Sep 2020 #14
Ha Cosmo Blues Sep 2020 #20
I e-mailed my friend stat in 2008 NewsCenter28 Sep 2020 #16
Then say it's a prediction Cosmo Blues Sep 2020 #19
Voting has closed in Florida already??? sarisataka Sep 2020 #8
Barbara Lagoa, the Cuban, wasn't good enough for Trump. OrlandoDem2 Sep 2020 #12
Why don't Biden run ads reminding the Cuban voters of Trump's decision? Wanderlust988 Sep 2020 #17
I believe that the Cubans will vote Republican out of habit. Chainfire Sep 2020 #18
Many Cubans could be excited his second choice is Cuban That could be enough for them mucifer Sep 2020 #21

Under The Radar

(3,405 posts)
2. He only received 56% of the Cuban vote in 2016
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:17 PM
Sep 2020

Just the average of a Trump voter fatigue is 10% so he was destined to get only 46% anyway. But I have never seen the Cuban vote as being the breaking point of the Florida electorate.

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
4. Hillary did an outstanding job of winning over Cuban-Americans who had previously been for the GOP.
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:24 PM
Sep 2020

The media has written that out of the history books, of course.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
9. How important is the Cuban vote anyway? Aren't the younger Cubans a little more open to...
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:38 PM
Sep 2020

Dems than the older anti-Castro fanatics?

Add up the Puerto Ricans and military types in the panhandle, aren't the Cubans kinda lost?

cab67

(3,010 posts)
7. Times have changed.
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:36 PM
Sep 2020

The generation that left Cuba, and the first-generation children of exiles, are aging. Younger Cuban-Americans haven’t grown up with the same level of hatred toward Castro as their predecessors.

Cosmo Blues

(2,497 posts)
3. I hate headlines like this
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:18 PM
Sep 2020

It's just a lie, no votes have been counted, polls haven't closed. No one knows who the hell Trump is going to nominate until he nominates them, how many times do you have to be burned before you learned that?

Under The Radar

(3,405 posts)
6. Barrett is the only candidate that the GOP senate will confirm.
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:33 PM
Sep 2020

It was a sweet nod to the Cuban community, but the evangelicals are ruthless evil when it come to trusting anyone other than their own.

I have had a lifetime of being burned by the GOP since 1979. Now from that experience I can feel the heat of a GOP fart wind.

Cosmo Blues

(2,497 posts)
19. Then say it's a prediction
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 06:47 PM
Sep 2020

And you might be right again, it just can't be a statement of fact if it hasn't happened yet. Yeah I'm a stickler about language. And I'm sick of Republicans lying I don't want us to be like them

Wanderlust988

(509 posts)
17. Why don't Biden run ads reminding the Cuban voters of Trump's decision?
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 06:00 PM
Sep 2020

If the shoe was on the other foot, Trump would do it.

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