I bought your last book: 
Posted on 07/07/2011 8:43:43 AM PDT by Signalman
If the election were held today, President Obama would get only 56 percent of the Jewish vote against a generic Republican candidate, down from the 78 percent he won in 2008 and less than the 74 percent John Kerry received in 2004.
This is the key finding of a survey of 1,000 Jewish voters I conducted from June 20-27 using telephone and Internet interviews. After asking basic questions of the entire sample, I proceeded to drill down with more detailed questions for the Jews in the sample who identified themselves as Democrats. The overall survey has a 95 percent confidence of a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.
Triggering the increasing Jewish disaffection with Obama is opposition to his proposal that an Israeli return to ’67 borders be the starting point of peace negotiations. By 10-83, Jewish voters opposed the plan. Jewish Democrats opposed it by 10-67. Asked if President Obama is “too biased against Israel,” Jewish voters as a whole agreed with the charge by 39-30, while 32 percent of Jewish Democrats also agreed (and 40 percent of Jewish Democrats disagreed).
Jews who identified themselves as Democrats also said:
• By 37-47, they do not think Obama is “doing a good job of promoting peace in the Middle East.”
• By 43-42, they break evenly on whether Obama “is being too tough on Israel.”
• By 61-30, Jewish Democrats think the president “is naïve in thinking that he can make peace with the Arabs.”
The survey probed the issue of 1967 borders in greater depth, reading Jewish Democrats a statement giving both sides of the issue:
President Obama says that Israel should give up the land it occupied after the 1967 war except for some adjustments. He says that these borders would give the Palestinians a viable nation of their own and would lead to a settlement of their conflict with Israel. Others disagree, saying that these borders are too small, exposing Israel to shelling from the Golan Heights in the north and giving the nation a middle only nine miles wide. They say that returning to the pre-’67 borders would not stop the Arabs from wanting to destroy Israel but would make it easier to do so. Which view comes closest to your own?
In response, Jewish Democrats opposed returning to the ’67 borders by 82-8.
Israel is very important to Jewish Democrats.
• By 86-4, Jewish Democrats agree that “it is very important that Jews have a country of their own, considering their history of persecution.”
• They disagree, by 9-75, with the idea that “Israel has become a bully, pushing its Arab neighbors around.”
• Jewish Democrats agree, by a margin of 85-4, that “Israel is a small country surrounded by countries and peoples that want to destroy it.”
• By an overwhelming 12-71, they reject the idea that “Israel is intolerant of its neighbors and does not do enough to get along with them in peace”.
• By 79-4, Jewish Democrats agree that “Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbors but the Arabs won’t let it” and reject, by 11-73, the statement that “Israel is always trying to grab more land and throw out the Palestinians who live there.”
• Finally, Jewish Democrats agree, 67-13, with the overview that “if the Arabs lay down their weapons, there would be no more war. It is just their desire to destroy Israel that creates the conflict.”
Given the importance of Israel to the Jewish Democratic voters of the United States, it is clear that Obama is playing with fire as he toughens the American foreign policy toward Israel and banks his credibility on the idea that peace is possible simply through Israeli territorial concessions. American Jews — Democrats included — reject the very foundation of Obama’s efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East as “naïve.”
Obama is in the process of breaking the close relationship between his party and the Jewish community, a liaison first formed by Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s. In increasing numbers, American Jews and Jewish Democrats are leaving the president’s side.
The CLOWN playing POTUS soon won’t be able to get elected DOG CATCHER.
Wait until America finally figures out who ordered GUNS dumped into Mexico (the Community Organizer, of course).
And Americans are too foolish to understand WHY the POTUS is using the US Military to put Al Qaeda in power in Libya.
How about $Billions to help Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood?
How about no oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico?
No capital punishment of illegal aliens.....
Barry is now showing his true anti-American, pro Muslim self fully.
Not buying it... American Jews don’t give two sh*ts about Israel. They’re all about putting dems in seats of power. Come election day, he’ll pull the customary 75%.
When they get inside the voting booth, they will still vote for Obama.
Two problems with this article:
1. We get these once or twice per eletion cycle and it never happens. Republican = Hitler to most secular Jews.
2. Morris wrote it. He is usually wrong.
I bought your last book:
he ain’t losing the yenta’s in my family...thats for sure.
They are the most vicious libs out there.
The next Dick Morris headline will read “Obama cutting back on AIDs foreign aid funds to Africa.Disappointed African Americans will vote for a white Republican”
lol.
...Now, it’s true that Obama’s support among Jews has declined since his inauguration. But it has also declined to about the same degree with the general population.
Obama’s Jewish support right now stands at 60 percent, which is better than it was for much of 2010, long before Obama made that controversial speech. Still, if that’s the share of the Jewish vote Obama gets, he’ll be in trouble in, say, Florida. But we don’t expect that to happen. When it’s a choice between a hawkish Israel-revering Republican and a somewhat more evenhanded Obama, the Jews will still go with Obama, because Jewish-Americans are, first of all, mostly liberal, and, secondly, concerned about other things aside from which candidate can proclaim his love for Israel the loudest.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/obama_and_jews.html?mid=partnerfeed
Toe sucker says 56% as opposed to 78% he got last time.
I say wrong again Dickey. I will go for 67% or less next election and a hell of alot more will stay home.
Not unlike the Black community, the well is poisoned. Jews would rather not vote than consider the unappealing thought of voting for a “republican”..
What makes Morris think that Jewish voters should not vote their American interests?
Well, given the most active thread yesterday is that non-Christians can’t be conservative, the conservative tent is hardly welcoming.
That said, if every Jewish voter voted for McCain, Obama would still have been put in office by you goy.
As your prophet said: remove the plank in your own eye, then worry about the speck that is the Jewish vote.
If he lost a majority of Jewish voters in South Florida then it might matter electorally....at least in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach....I cannot think where it would matter elsewhere...New York maybe but that would require a seismic shift whereby all most Jews voted GOP...in South Florida if just 55% voted GOP it would help...it’s that close there.
If he lost the secular Jewish cadre in journalism, media properties, entertainment and other institutional arenas where Obama and other lefties have always benefited nicely from their financial and editorial support then that would be major.
Huge actually....pivotal..and welcomed....Imagine Hollywood making a conservative version of The Contender or some pro war movies all hitting late next summer and early fall.
Not only might they do box office unlike the lefty agit prop the studios spew every cycle but it would help with that inherently stupid mushy middle.
You lose Speilberg, Geffen, Weinstein, Katzenberg and most studio green light folks and so forth and Obama would feel that heat bigtime
But like David Gilmour says with a sparkle in his blue eyes and perfect Cambridge accent when constantly asked if he will tour again with Roger Waters ....”ain’t gonna happen”
This reminds me I need to buy Mamet’s book...I heard it reviewed on of all places on NPR while traveling
they consider him a traitor obviously
I have always enjoyed his wordy dialogues...wifey doesn’t like it as much
Glad to have a new convert...there are a few brave souls in the Hollywood echo chamber
Dick Morris: losing credibility.
“When they get inside the voting booth, they will still vote for Obama.
Not this Jew!”
Bless you. But, I’m afraid that you will need to talk to your friends on the Upper West Side of NYC to make them see the light.
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