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Eugene

(61,900 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 02:55 PM Apr 2015

Poll finds rising exile support for Obama's Cuba policy

Source: Reuters

US | Wed Apr 1, 2015 12:21pm EDT

Poll finds rising exile support for Obama's Cuba policy

(Reuters) - A poll of Cuban-Americans shows support for the White House's new Cuba policy has risen in the three months since it was announced, with 51 percent now in favor of closer engagement with Cuba, up from 44 percent in December.

The poll by consulting firm Bendixen & Amandi International, and released in New York on Wednesday, sampled 400 people across the country's population of approximately 2 million Cuban-Americans, mostly concentrated in Florida and New Jersey.

Forty percent of those polled said they disagreed with the new policy.

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"In the three months since President Obama's historic announcement, rather than increasing opposition, the study reveals there is now slight majority support amongst Cuban-Americans for normalization of relations with Cuba," said Fernand Amandi, of Bendixen & Amandi International, a Miami firm which did work for both Obama's presidential campaigns.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/01/us-usa-cuba-poll-idUSKBN0MS4WH20150401

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Poll finds rising exile support for Obama's Cuba policy (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2015 OP
It has always seemed so odd hearing exiles claim they had to "flee" from Cuba, Judi Lynn Apr 2015 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. It has always seemed so odd hearing exiles claim they had to "flee" from Cuba,
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 06:01 PM
Apr 2015

and then hearing some of them would go back to Cuba on vacation whenever they wanted.

Just didn't make much sense, did it?

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