63 Percent Of Florida Residents In Favor Of Normalizing Relations With Cuba, Finds New Study

According to a new study published by the Atlantic Council, 63 percent of Flordia residents are in favor of 'normalizing' relations between the United States and Cuba. More significantly, 56 percent of Americans are in favor of this change, while 62 percent of Latinos supported the change in policy between both countries. The results come in the wake of announcements suggesting a change in U.S.-Cuba relations, however, supporters of the embargo say the study is heavily biased.

"Given the results of the survey, it is clearly time to take another look at U.S.-Cuba policy. There has been a surge in thinking about whether it's working," Jason Marczak told Reuters, deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. "We may have crossed the Rubicon with this poll," said U.S. Senator, Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona and longtime opponent of the embargo."This tells us that Floridians by a greater percentage than the rest of the country want to see changes to the policy."

However, opponents of a change in current policy say the study is heavily biased. "The entire release is biased and agenda-driven," Mauricio Claver-Carone, head of the largest Cuban exile lobby group in Washington "They didn't ask if they were voters. In other words, it's not a poll of 'likely voters' or 'registered voters'...the fact remains every single Cuban-American elected official, in any position, in Miami-Dade County supports the embargo. So the facts speak for themselves," he added.