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Jewish voters thinking twice about voting for Obama
Coach is Right ^ | 8/7/2012 | Emma Karlin

Posted on 09/07/2012 10:16:13 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax

Ira Foreman has a tough job nobody could imagine would be tough just four years ago. Foreman is the man in charge of getting Jewish voters to the polls to support the re-election of Barack Obama. This was supposed to be a snap job. Foreman should be living it up in Charlotte knowing he had his people lined up and ready to go. But things have gone from bad to worse in the relationship between the Democrats and the Jewish voter.

At this point just two months from Election Day the support Jews will give Obama is not at all a sure thing. Those saying they will vote for him have dwindled from 78% in 2008 to only 64% at best today.

While in and of itself the Jewish vote is not very large, it has been a consistent “canary in a coal mine” indicator of trouble for Democrat presidential candidates. Since 1916 no Democrat has ever lost the Jewish vote but when the percent of support from Jews goes down below 68% no Democrat has won.

On top of all of the in-your-face insults to those who cherish Israel...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: 2012election; barackobama; bho2012; jewishvote; jewishvoters; jews
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To: Impala64ssa

...and to corroborate your point, a conservative Republican beat a Jewish Democrat in Weiner’s old district in Brooklyn/Queens, mainly on the strength of the ortho Jewish vote.


41 posted on 09/11/2012 6:27:21 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

To those wondering why Jews vote for Democrats, every time this question comes up, I give the same answer:

They may be Jews by birth or affiliation, but their religion is liberalism.


42 posted on 09/11/2012 6:30:41 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: Oldpuppymax

To those wondering why Jews vote for Democrats, every time this question comes up, I give the same answer:

They may be Jews by birth or affiliation, but their religion is liberalism.


43 posted on 09/11/2012 6:30:59 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: justiceseeker93

As a Jew, I am telling you all that it will be an historic turnout for Romney.


44 posted on 09/11/2012 8:41:12 PM PDT by Hildy (F"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Any American Jew that votes for Obama is an idiot!


46 posted on 09/11/2012 9:34:54 PM PDT by Batman11 (We came for the chicken sandwiches and a Sweet Tea Party broke out!)
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To: sf4dubya
...Hey now

Hey now, Staten Island actually has neighborhoods with streets, trees, and nice-looking private houses that most Americans would recognize as human settlements ... and did have Republican Congress critters.

This is rare in the Republican-Free Zones of the other Four Boroughs; a pleasant relief from other neighborhoods that look like Berlin in 1946 without the charm, or like Port-au-Prince after the big quake.

47 posted on 09/11/2012 10:18:57 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Hello, Supreme Court? What's a Natural Born Citizen? Been on hold for 5 years.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

I guess that you have not heard of Congressman Bob Turner, who won a special election in a Brooklyn-Queens district which is the most Jewish in the nation.


48 posted on 09/11/2012 10:19:01 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: rmlew
Congressman Bob Turner

And a Hell of a welcome victory it was! Call me when he gets re-elected.

BTW, my knowledge of NYC is a little dated. I lived there after college and my Congressman was Koch! His boyfriend (a ballet dancer) was our neighbor.

49 posted on 09/11/2012 10:26:07 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Hello, Supreme Court? What's a Natural Born Citizen? Been on hold for 5 years.)
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To: justiceseeker93
I will guarantee you that Americans abroad in Israel will vote at least 75% for Romney vs. Obama, and (hypothetically) if all Israelis could vote in the American election, Romney might get 80-90% of their vote.

I have a brother there, and I can assure you that there is a highly organized campaign against Fauxbama. I'd bet on 85%-90%. Note that most Americans in Israel are quite religious, and they are generally quite politically conservative.

51 posted on 09/12/2012 8:10:17 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
And a Hell of a welcome victory it was! Call me when he gets re-elected.
He won't be. The congressional district was destroyed. There was a deal to get rid of one district upstate and one downstate. The Democrats wanted to punish the Jews and other white ethnics for voting Republican, and getting rid of a white district is easier than a minority one.

BTW, my knowledge of NYC is a little dated. I lived there after college and my Congressman was Koch! His boyfriend (a ballet dancer) was our neighbor.
The Upper East Side in the 1970s is quite different from these areas now.

52 posted on 09/12/2012 11:46:22 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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