MIAMI -- Revising U.S. policy toward Cuba will not likely be at the top of President-elect Barack Obama's to-do list, though polls show a majority of Americans favor it.

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"I don't think the Obama administration will lift arbitrarily all the policies that we currently have with Cuba," said Dr. Andy Gomez, a Cuba analyst at the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.

Gomez is part of a Brookings Institute think-tank currently crafting Cuba policy choices for Obama's transition team.

"Part of the recommendations we’re going to make to his transition team will be to deal with the holistic problem, the whole problem," he said.

In debates and at a luncheon in Miami last May, Obama indicated he would be open to dialog with Cuba's Castro government if political prisoners, human rights monitoring and free elections are part of the talks.

"I will maintain the embargo," said Obama in May. "It presents us with leverage to provide the regime a clear choice -- if you take significant steps toward democracy beginning with the freeing of political prisoners, we will take steps to begin normalizing relations."

Gomez and his team will recommend any change in policy be crafted with a goal of meeting national interests, not Cuban-exile politics.

The results of a Zogby poll last week indicate that 60 percent of Americans believe the nation's Cuba policy should be revised. The poll shows 68 percent favor lifting the travel ban to Cuba and 62 percent support business trade.

Under the 1996 Helms-Burton law, Congress would have to approve lifting the embargo or establishing official relations with the Castro government. Gomez said that is not likely to be high on the list of lawmakers as they wrangle with two wars and an economic meltdown.

More easily amended is the specific travel restrictions that limit family travel and relatives' ability to send money to loved ones in Cuba. Obama's Latin America Foreign Policy adviser told reporters that move may come quickly.