For the most part, the only Americans that really care enough about Cuba to form a negative opinion are Cuban immigrants and their descendants. They happen to b

For the most part, the only Americans that really care enough about Cuba to form a negative opinion are Cuban immigrants and their descendants. They happen to be a powerful voting block in Florida, a swing state, so they have an outsized effect on national politics. If not for them, the embargo would have been dropped years ago and relations would have been normalized.