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Florida Dems in uproar after Sanders' Cuba comments
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/florida-dems-uproar-sanders-cuba-comments-117213As a swing state, Florida is traditionally more moderate than Sanderss brand of progressivism. No major party candidate nominee here has ever called himself a socialist, nor has one been as critical of Israel, which could be problematic in the March 17 primary because 70 percent of Floridas estimated 600,000 Jewish voters are Democrats.
In Florida, the concerns with Sanders are particularly acute in the Jewish- and Hispanic-heavy southeast, notably the Miami-area, a liberal bastion that a Democrat needs to carry by big margins to win the state. Top Florida elections are often decided by about a percent or less, making small shifts in the electorate loom large on Election Night.
Sanderss positions on Latin America could be the most problematic in a general election. If leads to defections to Trump or low Hispanic turnout, it could make a material difference In a state where Latinos account for more than 17 percent of the registered voters.
Florida doesnt have a single Latino community. It has immigrants and exiles from multiple Latin American countries where socialism is a loaded term. When Sanders says he wants to lead a revolution, it sounds like revolución! to many in South Florida who fled Castro and other leftist regimes. Sanderss supporters have even earned the nickname Sandernistas, a play on Sandinistas, the socialist guerillas who overthrew the right-wing Samoza dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979.
In Florida, the concerns with Sanders are particularly acute in the Jewish- and Hispanic-heavy southeast, notably the Miami-area, a liberal bastion that a Democrat needs to carry by big margins to win the state. Top Florida elections are often decided by about a percent or less, making small shifts in the electorate loom large on Election Night.
Sanderss positions on Latin America could be the most problematic in a general election. If leads to defections to Trump or low Hispanic turnout, it could make a material difference In a state where Latinos account for more than 17 percent of the registered voters.
Florida doesnt have a single Latino community. It has immigrants and exiles from multiple Latin American countries where socialism is a loaded term. When Sanders says he wants to lead a revolution, it sounds like revolución! to many in South Florida who fled Castro and other leftist regimes. Sanderss supporters have even earned the nickname Sandernistas, a play on Sandinistas, the socialist guerillas who overthrew the right-wing Samoza dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979.
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Florida Dems in uproar after Sanders' Cuba comments (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Feb 2020
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Sanders has no historical swing state appeal outside of MOE, I don't see how this helps him
uponit7771
Feb 2020
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DanieRains
(4,619 posts)1. Maybe If America Didn't Export Corruption So Much
There wouldn't be people like Castro.
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uponit7771
(90,364 posts)2. Sanders has no historical swing state appeal outside of MOE, I don't see how this helps him
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Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)3. right. just as Latino's across the country are not monolithic neither are
Florida Latinos. who knew?
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FBaggins
(26,758 posts)4. He's making FL/PA awfully tough for him to win
Thats one foot in a concrete bucket before the general election even gets started.
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YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)5. Batista and Trump are birds of a feather. Batista was a swell guy.
Just Google 'Batista' and read the Wikipedia ..for those of you not familiar with the notorious dictator that Castro overthrew. I won't bother to cut and paste.
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ehrnst
(32,640 posts)6. Yeah. And after he overthrew Batista, he became a despot in his own right.
When cutting and pasting, one shouldn't leave out the last 50 years...
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