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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bottom is out of the tub," Lincoln apparently said. "What shall...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs | Title: Tubs and Bottoms | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...review, she describes an Abraham Lincoln who entered office facing immense challenges...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs | Title: Tubs and Bottoms | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...again when his second term expires in 2012. But two of the most emphatically anti-Chávez figures at the consulate weren't voters. They weren't even Venezuelan. They were some of South Florida's most prominent and outspoken Cuban-American politicians: Republican Representatives Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Chávez won his referendum handily, but the day was still a victory of sorts for Diaz-Balart and Ros-Lehtinen, who got to cultivate potential constituents with a common concern - namely, the tight alliance between Chávez and their own nemesis, the Castro regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro and Chávez: The Evil Twins for Florida's GOP | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

Florida's Cuban-American GOP lawmakers, including Lincoln Diaz-Balart's brother and fellow Congressman, Mario Diaz-Balart, are also reaching out to other Latin Americans whose home countries have recently elected leftist leaders, most notably Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador. Some contend the effort is a strategic political move aimed at consolidating their power base during a palpable shift in the dynamic of Florida's Latino community - from traditionally Cuban and reliably Republican, to more Central or South American and Democratic or independent. While incumbents Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts all won re-election in November, their margins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro and Chávez: The Evil Twins for Florida's GOP | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Lincoln Diaz-Balart denounces the FIU poll as "pure baloney," saying it surveyed both Cuban Americans who are U.S. citizens and Cuban residents unable to vote. Still, Obama captured an impressive 35% of Miami's Cuban vote in large part because he pledged to undo George W. Bush's tight restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances to Cuba. It would all suggest that one of the key principles of the Miami Representatives' agendas - a hard-line approach to Cuba - is no longer the policy of choice in the community. And it's that kind of complexity that just might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro and Chávez: The Evil Twins for Florida's GOP | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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