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And Cubans are against illegal immigration, teaching schoolkids gender weirdness, welfare, food stamps, befriending Islamic terrorists, and the rest of the stuff liberals adore.
You obviously don't know Cubans that well. They are liberal on Social issues.
Perhaps you should ask one.
Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehiten of FL-27 has announced she will not seek re-election next year. Ros-Lehiten has been one of the more vocal critics of Trump in her party, and was also one of the first GOP members of the House to come out in support of SSM. She represents a heavily Hispanic (especially Cuban) district in the Miami area that was once strongly Republican, but has trended increasingly Democratic. There were only handful of seats that trended more against Trump than FL-27. Clinton defeated Trump in the district 58.6-38.9. There is no other Congressional District in the country in which Trump lost by a greater margin that is currently held by a Republican.
She didn't represent me in the Miami area but she was a horrible Congresswoman and glad she won't seek re-election. Her main focus was about relations with Cuba and Castro while ignoring a lot of issues concerning Miami.
The older Cubans who elected her over 2 decades ago are dying out and the younger Cuban Americans who are into their 3rd. & 4th. generations being Americans are more liberal.
President Obama won that demographic twice.
I did meet her years ago at a market and she was a cordial & polite lady but she had such a narrow focus that I sometimes wondered if she knew what country she was in.
Not exactly sure what that has to do with the topic at hand....
Fact of the matter is a long term well entrenched Republican incumbent is retiring that represents a district that was once heavily Republican, but has trended heavily Democratic. It is a district that Trump lost by 20 points. Trump doing very poorly in this once Republican district combined with it being an open seat makes it very vulnerable for Republicans.
Drop in a bucket.
Dems getting the house back without declaring gerrymandering illegal aint gonna happen.
She is a little like those blue collar dems who held on an extra 15 years in the north or Blue Dog dems in the south. Her holding the district does not mean any Republican automatically can. And to run someone more conservative in a district hat went to HRC by 20 when she lost the state by 3 or so tends to make me think some posters are misreading the tea leaves on this one.
That said- it is nice to see a politician who actually feels there is more to life than continuing to stay in politics. Half of them have to be carted off...
I'm glad to see her go. A strong Republican will take her place. Her formerly Republican views began to get very odd after her daughter decided to attempt to look like a man.
The chances of the GOP holding an open Congressional seat Trump lost by 20 probably isn't thst strong
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Drop in a bucket.
Dems getting the house back without declaring gerrymandering illegal aint gonna happen.
As Long as you can "pack" Rural black and City Democrats in the South, and "crack" them in the Northeast and west, then yes, there will be a problem.
But that is becoming less possible as Cities like Atlanta begin to grow in population and to spread out and States Like Michigan begin to lose seats to reapportionment.
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The Democrats these days only represent those things which Cubans find rather repulsive. That's what the Democrats have limited themselves to.
That not a good, argument. you are saying Democrats have limited themselves to being repulsive to 0.0001% of the population. There are more people who hate Cubans than there are Cubans repulsed by Democrats.
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