Cuba controls the American presidency
Florida exit polls and today’s Miami Herald show yet again the power that Cuba exerts over the American presidency. This ironic political pathology — that Cuba effectively chooses American presidents, not the other way around — may be the real legacy of Jack and Bobby Kennedy . Today, they should be rolling over in their graves.
Yes, Cuban exiles — who are arguably more Cuban than American given their willingness to sacrifice U.S. foreign policy on the anti-Castro altar — would always hate Castro even without the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis. But these two events seared anti-Castro hatred so indelibly into the Cuban-exile soul that nowadays, at election time, everything revolves around how well the candidates sell themselves as keepers of the anti-Castro flame. For this we can thank JFK and his hot-head brother, Bobby, who were primarily responsible for both the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis.
How did McCain win Florida? Governor Crist’s endorsement was obviously a big deal among whites. But let’s look at Hispanic and Cuban numbers in the New York Times exit poll. McCain’s total margin over Romney in Florida was about 95,000 votes. Cuban votes totaled 135,000 (7% x 1,925,728 total FL GOP votes). Of the Cuban vote, McCain took a whopping 54% (73K) to Romney’s 9% (12K). For McCain, that’s a 61,000-vote Cuban margin. McCain’s margin over Romney among Hispanics overall was 92,000. Romney won 14% of Hispanics compared to McCain’s 54%. I suspect that the vast majority of the non-Cuban Hispanics followed the Cuban lead in voting for McCain. If we equalize the Hispanic vote between Romney and McCain (by shifting 46,000 Hispanic votes to Romney) we’re down to a 3,000-vote total McCain margin (95K-92K) and it’s time to count chads.
How did McCain win over the Cubans? Like Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler in their early days, McCain gave them an emotionally compelling narrative. According to a story in the Miami Herald, McCain defined himself as a fellow sufferer under the communist yoke by virtue of his time as a POW in Vietnam. Romney could never do this and obviously failed to sell a superior narrative. (No, of course I’m not comparing McCain to Castro or Hitler. Somebody else might, but I won’t.)
I found worthwhile this election-day video interview of some of Miami’s Cubans and this article in the Miami Herald. McCain’s huge margin among Florida Hispanics is a bad omen for Romney. Perhaps he can find a way to appeal to Hispanics elsewhere but given McCain’s open-borders schtick, it ain’t gonna be easy.
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If the candidate is McCain, I’ll join Ann Coulter voting for Hillary. No way am I voting for McCain. At least if she is elected, the Republicans won’t take the blame for the mess that is sure to follow either choice.
I would like to see how the vote would have gone if Huckabee was out of it. (Well, yeah, he IS “out of it” but that is not what I mean.) His staying in there now, at the behest of the SBC is sticking in my craw.
Just read the WSJ..com blog comments on their article on McCain’s apostasies. Every single letter, and I read a dozen, says if McCain is the candidate, they will either sit it out, vote for Obama/Hillary, or write in another name. That was 100% the gist of their comments. Under no circumstances will conservatives for for this turkey. Me included. He is an out and out liar, and a professional smirker.
You know, I wonder if we should get a club for Mitt, if he is not the candidate. At least we could all write his name in instead of mickey mouse, or our own name.
I will NOT vote for mccain or huckamonster.
By the way, I agree with the above posts….
I don’t know if this is the best place to deposit this information, but I thought you’d like to see it, in light of McCain’s illegal immigration policies:
Want stats? Try these:
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html In Utah, an audit reported: “…between $54.9 million and $85.4 million of state and local expenditures went toward the public education of undocumented children….” http://le.utah.gov/audit/07_07rpt.pdf
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers. http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, “estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.” http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States”. http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
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