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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Feb. 10, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
-------------------------Poll on Elián
A front-page headline in The Jersey Journal of Jan. 31 reads: "Hudson to Elián: Go Home to Your Father and Motherland--Poll also shows desire to normalize relations with Cuba."
What gives this headline special significance is that it refers to Hudson County, N.J., which has the second-largest concentration of Cubans in the United States, after south Florida.
The article reports on a poll taken in the county by New Jersey City Uni-
versity. It shows that over half the county's residents were for sending Elian home. And almost half were also for normalizing relations with Cuba.Hudson County has been the political base of two of the most rabidly anti-Cuban politicians in Congress--Robert Torricelli and Robert Menendez. Torricelli was the sponsor of a law tightening the blockade against Cuba.
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