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Poll: McCain winning Florida Hispanics
According to a Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times poll released this week, Republican John McCain is beating rival Barack Obama with Latinos in Florida.
The poll — which showed a tight race overall — showed that McCain is favored by Hispanics 51 to 41 percent. However, the poll’s margin of error is 10.6 percentage points.
Nationwide, Obama is handily beating McCain among Latinos, according to various polls. Florida is different, though, because many of its Cuban-American residents tend to be Republicans.
Roland Sanchez-Medina, vice president of the Cuban-American Bar Association, told the Miami Herald that “Obama’s current drag among Hispanics could hurt the Democratic Party’s chances of unseating three South Florida Cuban-American Republicans in Congress — Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.”
Read the story here.
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