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The 2022 FIU Cuba Poll (III)
Cuban Americans and their opinions about key national issues and the performance of President Joe Biden.
Published in OnCubanews.com November 2, 2022 in It is not easy
If you ask questions about Cuba to Cuban Americans, they will tell you their opinions, their mother’s opinion, and the opinions of every Cuban they know until the sun sets, sin pelos en la lengua. And it is likely that Cubans indeed discuss Cuba more often than, say, random individuals living in New York or Ohio or California. But it is also likely that Cubans talk about other important topics of national importance just as much as folks in New York, Ohio or California. At least that’s the impression that we get when we ask Cubans to prioritize the concerns most important to them.
There is evidence that Cuban Americans are more liberal on a variety of mainstream sociopolitical issues than Republicans as a group. In the Cuba Poll we don’t compare Cuban Americans to other groups but we do ask them to prioritize key issues that are currently on the national agenda. This article looks at the questions on the 2022 FIU Cuba Poll that seem to indicate that Cubans are not simply “one trick ponies” obsessed with US/Cuba policy to the detriment of other issues facing the…
