Yeah, Jeb! did some pandering to the Cuban and Black communities, but what helped him most of all was a massive series of Dem fuckups and one of the most incompetant campaigns ever run. I'm glad it's over. The duelling campaign slogans were "Jeb!" and "Buddy's Our Buddy!" and they grew quite wearisome very quickly. In today's paper I read that Jeb! told Jesse Ventura that his big brother could beat him up. Jesse allowed that a Texan hasn't shamed him yet and he didn't reckon it was going to happen.
frances
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998 alexlocascio at juno.com wrote:
> Looks like it's working, too. Just look at Jeb Bush' s recent victory in
> Florida. Of course, Cubans have always been heavy Republican voters, so
> one shouldn't really view them as representative of the Latino community
> as a whole. Nonetheless, having grown up in Miami (and having been born
> to a Cuban mother), I've noticed that while Cubans spit on other Latino
> groups (like Mexican migrant workers in South Dade) the rest of the year,
> when election time comes, they're always talking "Latino unity" type
> crap.
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