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The 2022 FIU Cuba Poll (I)
How Cuban-Americans in South Florida View U.S. policies toward Cuba, critical national issues and the upcoming elections?
By Guillermo J. Grenier
Published in OnCubaNews.com, October 27, 2022
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
-Old Cuban Proverb. Really.
It’s that time again. The 2022 FIU Cuba Poll, the longest running research project designed to gauge the political attitudes of the south Florida Cuban American population, is ready for prime time. We conducted the poll from late July to mid-September and now are ready to unveil the results.[i] We will present the numbers of the 2022 Cuba Poll over the next few days here in OnCuba News in five articles. Today we present information on the attitudes of Cuban Americans in south Florida towards the economic embargo (bloqueo) and the status of diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the next installment, we’ll cover some of the dynamics in the relationship between Cuban Americans and Cubans living on the island. Subsequent installments will present the data on the political profile of Cuban Americans towards the U.S. political process: the preferred candidates and the most important issues. We will conclude the series by comparing this year’s poll to…