"Cuban-Americans Are Getting Over Republicans"

Cuban-Americans Are Getting Over Republicans

by Anna Bennedetti and Roque Planas

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/cubans-dont-support-republicans_n_5531044.html

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Republicans have been fighting to regain lost ground with Latino voters after Mitt Romney's unsuccessful presidential campaign. A new report shows the problem may be even bigger than they imagined.

An analysis of survey data by the Pew Research Center published Tuesday shows that the Cuban population in the U.S., once known for its staunch support of the GOP, is shifting towards the Democratic Party.

Throughout the years, while Latinos across the nation leaned Democrat, according to Gallup, Cubans remained among the most conservative within the group. But as of 2013, only 47 percent of registered Cuban voters say they identify with the Republican Party, down sharply from the 64 percent who said they leaned towards the GOP a decade ago, according to Pew.

The difference between those who identified as Democrats in 2002 and now is also drastic. Twelve years ago only 22 percent of the Cuban population in the U.S. identified with the liberal party while today the number has doubled to 44 percent.



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