Florida primary is on Tuesday (01/29/08).
John McCain won with all delegate in Republican primary. Hillary won with no delegates in Democrat primary.
Can Hillary Clinton repair the trust of the Cuban and Vietnamese community from Bill Clinton? Can John McCain win the heart of Vietnamese voters like Jim Webb? Can former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani win Republican primary in Florida? Ducan Hunter and Fred Thompson dropped out the Republican primary race.
Al Gore (Vice-President) , Janet Reno (former Attorney General of USA) and local Democrat officials (got the blame/involved in Cuban baby crisis by president Clinton's order to take Elian Gonzalez. by force at night time) got defeat in U.S. election 2000 by razor thing margin in Floriday. The Democrat discounted the deportation of Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba by gun point picture because of historic major support from the Hispanic and elder population in Florida. The picture and video played back exactly the similar situations in memory of thousand Cuban and Vietnam families during the communist rule in their country.
John Kerry did not do well with Vietnamese voters in Florida in 2004 because of his filibuster in U.S. Senate on a trade bill with Vietnam.
President Bush tried to please both Cuban and Vietnamese communities after winning election in 2000 and 2004.
A Vietnamese American , Thuong Nguyen "Cuc" Foshee is a major contribution on Republican fundraising events and recruited thousands of Vietnamese voters during 2000 and 2004. Her name is unknown/under radar in the Vietnamese communities around the USA until her arresting in Vietnam in the name of "terrorism" accusation while visiting relative families in Vietnam. The main reason was probably the picture of her protest activity in front of the White House from the journalist in US newspapers/media web sites. With the threat of blocking Vietnam trade bill by a Republican Florida senator and the help from the White House, Vietnamese communist government forced to release Thuong Nguyen "Cuc" Foshee within 10 days after a Vietnamese court sentenced her to 15 months after staying in jail for 10 months .
Democrat candidates
Hillary Clinton 50
John Edwards 14
Mike Gravel
Barack Obama 33
Bill Richardson
South Carolina Republican primary date is January 19, 2008. The Vietnamese population/voters in South Carolina is very small when comparing with North Carolina and Georgia.
Republican candidates
Rudolph Giuliani 15%
Mike Huckbabee 14%
John McCain 36%
Ron Paul 3%
Mitt Romney 31%
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