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Secret Poll: Cubans Want Vote

Posted Nov 19, 07 11:26 AM CST in World 

(Newser) – Three-quarters of Cubans surveyed in an unorthodox poll want to vote on Fidel Castro’s successor, 79% say the current government can't fix the country’s problems, and 83% want changes in the economic system, USA Today reports. The 600 respondents weren’t told they were being polled—and the US government-funded, pro-democracy group that conducted the research didn’t build a representative national sample.

Said a Heritage Foundation fellow, “It’s kind of like a nose under the tent of the real Cuba.” But other pollsters questioned the poll methods, which the group defended. Gallup had previously found 39% of Cubans disapproved of the government; an executive said the newer study “obviously” included the pollsters’ “interjected” opinions.

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