<h3>No Roger, Cuba Still Matters to Cuban Americans</h3>

Consider this analysis from the New York Post:

Obama’s ‘legacy’ drive lost Florida for Clinton

The evidence is mounting that President Obama’s overzealous defense of his “opening Cuba” gambit cost Hillary Clinton the state of Florida. That misstep could end up wiping out most of the president’s carefully curated “legacy” achievements.

For the president and his young Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, the establishment of diplomatic relations with one of the world’s last communist dictatorships became something they weirdly defended from any criticism. Even the smallest amendment that watered down coddling the Castros drew fulminating threats of vetoes from the White House.

Then in late October, President Obama went for broke and decided to stick a bigger needle in his opponents’ eye.

He lifted limits on the import of cigars and rum, and then ordered our ambassador to the United Nations to abstain from a vote condemning the US economic embargo on Cuba.

That UN directive was especially galling. President Obama was, in fact, venting his frustration with Congress for not lifting the embargo upon his command — which Congress has the right to refuse to do — by letting the world body mock US law unopposed.

The Cuban-American community in Miami was irritated enough to give a second look to Donald Trump, who quickly reacted by shifting from his earlier tepid support for Obama’s Cuba policy to a promise that he would end relations unless Raul Castro began democratic reforms.

Obama and Clinton gamble on the mis-conception that a new generation of Cuban-Americans who were born in the United States would not feel deep ties to Cuba or care all that much about the Castro regime.

They were wrong, it matter very much to them and Obama's gambit with the Castro government was the Bay of Pigs betrayal all over again.

By opening relations with Cuba, Obama handed Florida to Trump.