What do Rudy Giuliani and a Miami grocery store chain have in common? Each is counting on America TeVe and other Spanish-language stations to deliver the goods: Cuban-Americans.
Tuesday marks the start of Rudy Giuliani’s second week of TV advertising in the crucial South Florida Spanish-language television market. Crucial, because whichever Republican presidential candidate draws the most Cuban-Americans to the polls for Florida’s January 29 primary is better positioned to win.
Cuban-Americans living in South Florida vote overwhelmingly Republican in presidential contests and turn out in high numbers. Political strategists say that in past GOP primaries for U.S. senate or governor’s races, when turnout is low elsewhere in the state, Cuban-Americans have comprised from 15 to 20 percent of voters statewide.
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