Obama maintains standing with Cuban-Americans

[dipsydoodle]

MIAMI (AP) -- The door for travel to Cuba cracked open during President Barack Obama's first term.

Cuban-Americans can now visit family on the island as often as they like. Americans can travel legally as part of an academic or religious trip.

Perhaps it's for this reason that Obama's standing with the Cuban-American community in Florida stayed largely steady on Election Day, even though the modest openings with Cuba have riled some of South Florida's more conservative exiles. Exit polling showed that 49 percent of Cuban-Americans voted for the Democrat, roughly the same percentage as four years ago.

At the same time, Florida voters sent to the House a Cuban-American Democrat from Miami who supports Obama's expansion of travel and remittances to Cuba while still favoring the 50-year-old embargo that limits American trade with the communist country. Joe Garcia defeated Republican Rep. David Rivera, who was implicated in a campaign finance scandal and had supported a traditional, isolationist stance toward Cuba.

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As part of an academic or religious trip............how kind.

[Daniel537]

1. Indeed he does.

And let there be no doubt that its because of his policies on travel and remittances to Cuba. Democrats better remember that. More should be done in opening relations with Cuba, but things are much better now than they were under Bush or what they would be with Romney.