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  POLL OF [FL] HISPANIC VOTERS: Bush Paying Price for Cuban Policies
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Last EditedArmyDem  Mar 05, 2004 05:19pm
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News DateFriday, March 5, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionMarch 2, 2004

Peter Wallsten

Months of growing tensions over the Bush administration's approach to Cuba are taking a toll on the president's standing among Cuban Americans -- one of the Republican Party's most crucial voting groups in Florida -- just as his reelection campaign is getting underway, according to a new poll.

The survey shows that more than one-third of South Florida Hispanic voters -- a group consisting primarily of GOP-leaning Cuban Americans -- disapproves of the job the president has done "promoting democracy and regime change" in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

FAILED TO DELIVER

Those results, compiled for Univision Channel 23 by Washington pollster Rob Schroth, are the latest indication that Bush could be hurt politically by complaints from some exile leaders that he has failed to deliver on campaign promises to crack down on Castro.

And they suggest that efforts by Bush in recent months to improve that record -- indicting the Cuban air force pilots who shot down Brothers to the Rescue planes, limiting travel, and establishing a special commission to pave the way toward democracy in Cuba -- might not have been enough to soothe the hard feelings.
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