There have been many polls taken, but none seemed to include the Cuban-American Community. The Cuban-American community is a community that lives in exile. Many members of the community have not seen Cuba in 30 years or more. Alan, Abel, a Canadian reporter, went to Florida to talk to them. He joined them in a banquet hall. He tells his story in this article:

In search of someone - anyone - on this planet who is not in love with Barack Obama, I am in the banquet hall of a Cuban restaurant in the Miami suburbs, and there are dozens of men and women around me and they are hollering "McCain! McCain! Sí McCain!"

A man shouts out in Spanish that I am a political reporter from Canada visiting South Florida. He asks for a show of hands declaring presidential preference. The result: John McCain, about 50; Mr. Obama, two. And the room is just beginning to fill. Soon there will be 250 people here.

Everyone is elegantly dressed on this Sunday afternoon. The women drip with gems. The men are in lacy guayaberas or business suits, crisp despite the subtropical heat. Almost everyone is 60 or older. They are sipping Bacardi on ice from salt-rimmed glasses, greeting old neighbours with kisses and abrazos, sharing their pride and their sadness.

It is a reunion of a group that calls itself the Municipal Council of the City of Santiago de Cuba in Exile. Santiago is where Fidel and Raúl Castro and 160 other upstarts wearing stolen military uniforms began their revolution on el 26 de Julio, 1953. Almost all the insurgents were killed or captured as they attempted to overrun an army base at six o'clock in the morning. The Castro brothers escaped to the high sierra, only to be surrounded, arrested, tried, convicted, condemned to death, reprieved, imprisoned, pardoned, and freed by the same Cuban government they soon would overthrow.

Against one wall is a display of paintings by an artist from the nearby island of the exiles' distant youth. One depicts the historic fortress and lighthouse of Havana above a crystal sea. A woman approaches and gestures angrily at the canvas.

"There is where they need change," she snaps. "We don't need change here."

It is el 27 de Julio, 2008 in the metropolis that Cuban passion, ambition, money and right-wing politics has completely remade.

"Did you hear what Raúl said last night in Santiago?" an architect and contractor named José Gonzáles barks at me.

The Cuban leader had chosen the scene of the rebels' original assault for a major policy address and the annual festival of Socialism or Death.

"He said, ‘Compañeros, I have bad news for you - we all must sacrifice even more,' " Mr. Gonzáles reports. "Well, that is exactly the same thing that Obama says!

"The left only wants to bring you down," Mr. Gonzáles announces. "Obama doesn't want to make everybody rich. When he talks about ‘equality,' he means that everybody should be equally poor, not equally up."

"We don't need that kind of change," another man named Felipe Fontanills agrees. "Fidel Castro achieved that already!"

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