Broad majorities of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, as well as ending the United States’ longstanding trade embargo and restrictions on travel to and from the Caribbean nation. CONT. Greg Holyk, ABC News Read more »
How do Americans feel about reestablishing relations with Cuba?
In the wake of President Obama’s surprise announcement of an agreement to normalize diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, 54 percent of Americans approve of reestablishing both diplomatic and trade relations between the two countries, while just 28 percent disapprove. … Evaluations of President Obama’s handling of relations with […] Read more »
Cuban-Americans split on Obama’s Cuba policy
Cuban-Americans nationwide are almost evenly divided over support for the embargo and for President Obama’s effort to normalize relations with Cuba, according to a new poll that shows a vast generational divide in reaction to this week’s historic announcement. CONT. Marc Caputo & Joey Flechas, Miami Herald Read more »
The decline of the Cuban American hard-liners
President Obama’s announcement Wednesday of steps to reestablish diplomatic relations and liberalize economic ties with Cuba signals the continued decline of a once politically formidable bloc: Cuban American hard-liners. The product of demographic and opinion trends that have been building for over two decades, these policy changes became timely following […] Read more »
Why the Cuba Issue No Longer Cuts Against Democrats in Florida
The importance of small demographic groups is often overstated by political commentators. The Cuban-American vote is an exception. Cuban-Americans represent a meaningful number of voters in a battleground state, Florida, that may be critical in the 2016 presidential election. Their political allegiances also seem to have shifted significantly toward Democrats […] Read more »
New York Times Poll Finds Public Support for Re-Establishing Relations with Cuba
Most Americans support more normal trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba and consider what happens in the communist nation to be important to the interests of the United States. Still, there is little interest in visiting the country, according to a nationwide poll conducted by The New York Times in […] Read more »