As we go to press polls show America’s largest swing state in a dead head between Romney and Obama. Florida has 29 electoral votes and the third largest “Hispanic” population in America. Normally this means a cakewalk for any Democrat.
But whoops! Turns out that about a third of these Florida Hispanics (Cuban-Americans) are actually so—as in Americans whose ancestors hail almost exclusively from Europe’s Iberian Peninsula known as Hispania by the Romans. So as a broken clock is right twice a day, the term “Hispanic” as used by the mainstream media can actually be correct about 1/1000 of the time. (i.e. when it refers to Cuban-Americans.)
A poll last week of voters in Florida’s Miami-Dade county by the Miami Herald county found the following breakdown:
Obama Romney Undecided
White: 64% 30% 6%
Black: 95% 2% 3%
Hispanic 33% 62% 5%
Hey wait a minute! liberals wail. “But every poll on the planet shows Obama with at least 70% of the U.S. Hispanic vote”?! So what’s going on here?!”
Americans of Cuban heritage as usual, that’s what’s going on. The Miami Herald poll broke it down further:
Obama Romney Undecided
Cuban-American 19% 76% 5%
In brief: no ethnic group in the U.S. comes even close to matching Cuban-Americans in their level of disdain for President Barack Obama in particular and the Democratic Party in general.