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...photograph that circulated in an e-mail last spring, Fidel Castro holds up a poster emblazoned with President-elect Barack Obama’s face, the words “I love this guy!” superimposed above Castro’s head. Despite the e-mail’s subject line—”Fidel Castro endorses Obama”—the former Cuban president had done no such thing. The image was a doctored advertisement aimed at Cuban-American voters circulated by the Florida Republican Party. In a presentation at the Berkman Center...
...Castro's Kind Words May Hurt Obama in Florida...
...largest swing state, it's imperative that McCain hold on to South Florida's Cuban-American votes, which usually swing strongly Republican but which Democrats believe they can divide this year. Those voters may have gotten an added impetus to go for McCain a few hours ago when Fidel Castro, Cuba's ailing ex-President and scourge of the Miami exile community, voiced praise for (but didn't outright endorse) Obama: "Without a doubt," Castro wrote this morning in Cuba's state-controlled media, "Obama is more intelligent, cultured and levelheaded" than McCain. DiBenigno, a Cuban American and daughter...
Either way, DiBenigno may well be right about the effect of Castro's Election Day praise for Obama - and Castro himself may want it that way. Castro watchers have long believed that he and Cuba's leaders prefer Republican U.S. Presidents who hold the hard line against the communist island, because it gives them a yanqui enemy to help rally domestic political support. McCain, Castro wrote in his statement today, is more "bellicose" than Obama - and that may be just what el comandante prefers. - By Tim Padgett / Miami...
...just non-Cuban Latinos who are changing Little Havana's politics. A half-century after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, younger and more moderate Cuban-Americans are coming to the fore in Miami - and their votes could be critical to whether or not Obama upsets McCain in Florida, the nation's largest swing state. One of the young volunteers waiting to transport elderly Obama voters is Hector Martinez, 21, a film major at Miami-Dade College who feels an uncanny bond with Obama...