Sad to see Obama is punishing Cubans in Cuba for the fact that their American compatriots voted Republican.
The did not. Even the most hardcore Republican Cuban areas of Miami-Dade have swung sharply towards the Dems. And most Cubans leaving outside those are quite a bit more liberal.
Not that it would make Obama's decision right either way. But, if anything, he should have been rewarding Cubans for coming home.
Florida Cubans went 54-41 for Trump. The 2012 exit poll does not show a figure for Cubans, but given that Florida Latinos (including non-Cubans, who are around 65% of Latino voters in that state) voted 60-39 Obama and 62-35 Clinton there probably may have been a swing to the Democrats among Cubans, even if I assume the swing would be bigger among non-Cuban Latinos. However, I wouldn't say it's a sharp swing, and Cubans were still more Republican than the state overall, which is quite a feat. In the Senate race, Cubans were even more Republican (68-31) than whites (62-34) -- for obvious reasons, of course.
So in both races Cubans voted Republican. That renders factually correct my claim that Florida Cubans voted Republican, even if there may have been a swing against the Republican presidential candidate.
