Cuban-Americans Elected Bush in Florida 2000

Bill Clinton garnered 35% of the Cuban vote in Miami and the rest of Florida in 1996, but Al Gore got only 20% in the contested 2000 election in Florida. The difference put Bush 537 votes over Gore, and the giant change was solely due to Clinton's decision to send Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba.

Also, the state of Florida for the first time since the nineteenth century elected over the last decade Republican majorities in both the state House and Senate, and voted in a Republican Cuban-American Senator in 2002.

It looks like Fidel influenced the results of a US presidential election to his own disadvantage in 2000, despite the institutionalized cheering section the American MSM had become over the decades.

When the happy event of his demise finally occurs, Miami and Florida may have made an historical permanent movement toward the right, and Republican values, in some part due to his malign socialist values in Cuba. In this case Castro's baleful influence had the unintended consequence of promoting conservative values among the Cuban refugee community in Miami.

In the end, the Cuban dictator's final legacy may include the ascendancy of Republicans in Florida.