{"id":1640,"date":"2012-11-09T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2012-11-09T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:54:11","slug":"hispanic-exit-polls-suggest-seismic-shift-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/11\/09\/hispanic-exit-polls-suggest-seismic-shift-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Exit Polls Suggest Seismic Shift in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=19007&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>Exit polls showing the powerful Cuban-American community in Florida favored President Obama \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which would make him the first Democratic nominee in decades to penetrate that Republican Party stronghold &#8212; suggest a seismic political shift in the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest swing state.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s growing appeal among Cuban-Americans, coupled with his overwhelming popularity in the booming Puerto Rican community, signals trouble for the Republican Party and threatens to repaint Florida from purple to blue if the trend continues.<\/p>\n<p>While Republicans are recriminating about the Hispanic vote nationwide, the flagellation is especially painful in Florida, with its bounty of 29 electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/hispanic-exit-polls-suggest-seismic-shift-in-florida-20121109\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/hispanic-exit-polls-suggest-seismic-shift-in-florida-20121109<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit polls showing the powerful Cuban-American community in Florida favored President Obama \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which would make him the first Democratic nominee in decades to penetrate that Republican Party stronghold &#8212; suggest a seismic political shift in the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest swing state. Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s growing appeal among Cuban-Americans, coupled with his overwhelming popularity in the booming Puerto &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/11\/09\/hispanic-exit-polls-suggest-seismic-shift-in-florida\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hispanic Exit Polls Suggest Seismic Shift in Florida&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[492,114,6],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-beth-reinhard","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-qs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}