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Public Opinion on Cuba

Steven L. Taylor
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Via WaPo‘s The Fix:

Sixty-eight percent support ending the trade embargo with Cuba — up 11 points from 2009 — and 74 percent support ending travel restrictions to Cuba — a jump of 19 points from five years ago.

The main issue over time:

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4 responses to “Public Opinion on Cuba”

  1. michael reynolds Avatar
    michael reynolds

    Yeah, I didn’t think this was going to amount to anything as a political issue. Rubio’s just demonstrating his lack of political judgment again. By Iowa this will be forgotten, and even Florida won’t care.

  2. JohnMcC Avatar
    JohnMcC

    Pretty clear from Sen Rubio’s opposition that he has determined that his future is as a Florida Senator instead of a national figure.

  3. Ron Beasley Avatar
    Ron Beasley

    @JohnMcC: As the old Florida Cubans die off even Rubio’s future as a senator may be in doubt.

  4. Dave Schuler Avatar
    Dave Schuler

    I think that the reality on the ground has favored some sort of normalization of relations for some time.

    However, note that for roughly the last ten years there has been no trend on public opinion on establishing diplomat relations. Without personal knowledge of the subject my off-hand interpretation of that is that the old Florida Cubans have mostly already died off and there’s a baseline of opposition of about 30%, proabably mostly Republican, to normalization.

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