The one minority group the R's could always count on, of course, are the Cubans of Miami.
Sure enough, McCain won the Cuban vote handily, about 65 to 35 in Miami-Dade County. But interestingly, McCain won big among Cuban-American voters 65 or older, while among Cuban voters 29 or younger, Obama won 55%.
In other words, as the original anti-Castro generation dies off, Cuban-Americans will become more like other Latino groups, which are heavily Democratic. And on top of that, Cubans aren't even the majority of Latinos in Florida any more, and so Obama became the first Democrat to win the overall Latino vote in Florida since they started keep track of such things in the 1980s.
The GOP base is shrinking. What a pity!
