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Cuban-American votes in Florida?

Though that's less "the US", and more "politicians in the US".




Sure, but it's not like the current administration is winning those votes in the first place. This is why Obama eased some travel and trade restrictions during his term and Trump put them back in place.


The embargo was enacted by law, so it requires a vote of Congress to abolish it. That's going to require some degree of acquiescence from both parties, no matter who is in office.

And, yes, it's absolutely stupid and self-harming at this point. But it's very important to a constituency in a swing state, to whom the issue is likely important enough that they will punish whichever party makes a serious effort to abolish it, and reward their opponents, regardless of their views on other issues.


Yeah, I also think it's dumb.

Cuba is still a dictatorship and I'm not sure about fully normalizing all relations, but the embargo seems dumb. It's not like we don't have lots of trade with other autocracies too.


Actually, not winning the votes is exactly why obama did what he did. Previously, if a cuban made it onto US soil (dry foot), they can get a green card in a year and vote 5 years after than. Cubans who made it to fl aren't exactly voting for the party people think is "socialist".

So obama ended the wet foot dry foot policy and made it so cubans who made it to fl is no different than someone crossing the mexian border from another country illegally.




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