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Link to polls and results on page, as well as past historical polls on Cuban-American attitudes towards Cuba and US/Cuba normalization.
2014 FIU Cuba Poll
First conducted in 1991, the FIU Cuba Poll is the longest running research project tracking the opinions of the Cuban-American community in South Florida. From the beginning, Guillermo J. Grenier and Hugh Gladwin, faculty members in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, have directed the survey. The poll was designed to measure the views of Cuban Americans about U.S. policy options toward Cuba. The consistency of some of the responses, as well as the shift in others, provides the most complete picture of Cuban-American political attitudes over time.
The FIU Cuba Poll is administered to randomly selected Cuban-American residents of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The sample is generated from telephone exchanges using standard random-digit-dialing procedures that ensure that each phone number has an equal chance of being chosen for the sample. Interviews are conducted with respondents who have both landline phones and cell phones. The large size of the sample allows for a complete demographic analysis of the Cuban-American population in Miami-Dade County. Bilingual interviewers conduct the survey in Spanish and English.
Polls here --> https://cri.fiu.edu/research/cuba-poll/
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Judi Lynn
(160,525 posts)Miami Cuban-Americans support end to embargo
Foreign relations » Poll shows softening of emigres’ hardline attitudes for the first time.
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
| The Associated Press
First Published 4 hours ago • Updated 4 hours ago
Miami • For the first time, a majority of Cuban-Americans surveyed in Miami said they support an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba, according to a poll released Tuesday by Florida International University. Even more support resuming diplomatic relations with the communist island’s government.
Polls conducted by the university over the years have marked a steady evolution of Cuban-American views. Just a decade ago, electoral success in Miami hinged in part on candidates’ support for the embargo. Many political experts have blamed Democrat Al Gore’s crucial loss of Florida in 2000 at least partly on the Clinton administration’s policies and actions toward the island.
As recently as three years ago, more than half of all those interviewed for the poll still supported the embargo. But this year, even registered Cuban-Americans voters — who tend to be older and take a harder line toward Cuba than more recent Cuba arrivals— were nearly evenly divided on the embargo.
Tuesday’s survey of 1,000 Cuban-American Miami-Dade County residents is the latest in a series of polls the public university has conducted on the politically flammable issue of U.S.-Cuba relations since 1991.
More:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/58078654-79/cuban-embargo-cuba-americans.html.csp
delrem
(9,688 posts)they will tire of persecuting Cuba.
Judi Lynn
(160,525 posts)Mika
(17,751 posts)More Cuban-Americans Favor Ending Embargo
A slight majority of Cuban-Americans say the U.S. should end its embargo
of Cuba, according to a poll by the Cuban Research Institute. Prof. Guillermo
Grenier, lead investigator of the study, joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero
to discuss.
http://live.wsj.com/video/more-cuban-americans-favor-ending-embargo/154E4D57-E26B-417E-8EB6-607045B970F1.html
Judi Lynn
(160,525 posts)It occurs to me that in South Florida, obsessing over Cuba keeps a whole lot of people employed, doesn't it? What ever are they all going to do with themselves if and when the US gets over itself and normalizes relations with Cuba?
Right away, Radio/TV Marti can kiss their $30,000,000.00 annual feedbag from the U.S. taxpayers goodbye, and every other organization, like the ones at the universities in the area plotting Cuba's future, will wither on the vine.
That should be more than interesting.
Mika
(17,751 posts)Why Can't Cuba Status Quo Advocates Just Tell The Truth?
Earlier today on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown, former Congressman and Cuba status quo advocate Lincoln Diaz-Balart attempted to attack this week’s FIU poll showing a majority of Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade support an overhaul of US-Cuba policy. Unfortunately for Diaz-Balart, he only embarrassed himself on national television by repeating retracted reporting and other falsehoods to make his point.
More, with embedded links, here --> http://cubanow.us/blog/why_cant_cuba_status_quo_advocates_just_tell_the_truth_2/
