Considering all the Dems who have been attacking McCain’s age, gray-haired Larry King was the most pathetic.
Along among 23 nations outside the U.S. only Israel supports McCain and that by 16 points in the last poll which was before the v-p picks.
In an on-line poll last week among English-speakers in the Jerusalem Post McCain got 75 per cent of the vote.
This may sound exaggerated and maybe it was, but Bush had a 70 per cent approval rating in a certified poll in 2004 which included Arabs who were almost all for Kerry.
What tips the scales here is the Iran threat. We are going to have to deal with this sooner or later no matter who is in the White House, but as least we know that McCain is with us and we don’t know where Obama stands, particularly after he flip flopped on Jerusalem after his AIPAC speech. Now we have Hillary running away from an anti-Ahmadinejad rally which brings back memories of her gushing embrace of Arafat’s wife in Gaza in 1998, telling her she supports his husband’s cause (which was killing as many Jews as possible) and this caused revulsion throughout Israel.
As for American Jews, their support for the Democrats is passed on from one generation to another. I don’t know anyone much thinks about it.