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Old 01-20-2012, 07:17 PM
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Cubans arent Latino's?

It is laugable (and wrong) to say that Latino's dont care for Rubio.
All brown people in America are not alike, nor do they all consider themselves by the descriptor, "Latino". Just like all black people in the United States are not automatically "African-Americans".

Not according to polling data from 12-13-2011
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70364.html

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Putting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on the Republican presidential ticket would result in a net gain of virtually no Latino votes for the GOP, a new poll shows.

While 24 percent of Hispanic voters surveyed said they would be more likely to vote Republican if Rubio appeared on the ballot, that was nearly canceled out by the 21 percent who told pollsters they would be less likely to vote Republican if the Cuban-American senator is the party’s vice presidential nominee, according to the Latino Decisions poll Monday.

And 46 percent said that Rubio running would have absolutely no effect on their vote.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz1k3EJw2YN
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