President Bush: Cuba stalwart ... and the one who gave Dems a potent wedge issue?

President Bush is in town today for what is likely his last visit as president. After a closed door fundraiser for embattled Republicans, he'll meet privately with a group of Cuban-American leaders.

The Republican who won the presidency with the help of Miami's Cuban-American community remains perennially popular among hard-line exiles for his steadfast refusal to blink when it comes to relaxing U.S. policy toward Cuba.

But Democrats suggest it was Bush's decision in 2004 to further tighten sanctions against the island that has given them what may be their best shot ever at unseating Miami's three Cuban-American members of Congress. For the first time, they say, there is an opportunity to compete for votes among an electorate once considered diehard Republican.

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