Posted on 08/25/2004 8:45:02 AM PDT by M 91 u2 K
Jewish Voters Favor Kerry, as Do Arab-Americans, Polls Show Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
NEW YORK, 25 August 2004 — As Republicans prepare for their convention in New York City next week, pollsters and pundits are asking which presidential candidate has won the heart — and most importantly the vote and financial backing — of Arab and Jewish Americans.
Despite Bush’s reputation as what one Republican called “the best friend that Israel has ever had in the White House,” the president’s full-term effort to court Jewish Americans has failed, according to a new poll that shows him trailing Sen. John Kerry.
“The work the Bush administration has done over the last three years to reach out to Jewish voters has been largely unsuccessful,” said pollster Anna Greenberg, who conducted the poll for the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC).
This could set up an ironic double win, because polls show Kerry leading among Arab-Americans as well, a switch from their overwhelming support for Bush four years ago.
Believing George W. Bush would follow his father’s Mideast polices, Arab-Americans gave Bush their support in2000 . But four years later, many are repelled by his decision to launch the Iraq war and his support for the USA Patriot Act, not to mention his pro-Israeli stance.
“The anger among Arab-Americans toward Bush is palpable,” pollster John Zogby said recently after conducting a poll in Dearborn, Michigan, home to one of the largest Arab-American communities in the United States.
“John Kerry has fulfilled the main criterion Arab-Americans are looking for: He’s not George Bush,” pollster John Zogby recently told journalists. “There’s no doubt in my mind Kerry will get the lion’s share of their vote, and Bush will get around 25 percent.”
Some Democrats believe Arab-Americans have nowhere else to turn. “Arab-Americans for whom the relations between Israelis and Palestinians is the most important issue are going to be frustrated this cycle because neither camp is going to give them any light,” Democratic strategist Steve Rabinowitz recently told the media. “The rhetoric on both sides is going to be extremely pro-Israel.”
“Bush “lied and made commitments and promises that never came true and Republican Arab-Americans are completely disillusioned with the Bush campaign,” Ali Dagher, an Arab-American lawyer from Dearborn, Michigan, told journalists during the Democratic Convention last month.
“At this point, you can’t be certain people will vote for Kerry, either. How do you get that vote? The Democratic ticket has to do something to give an incentive (for Arab- Americans) to go the polls.”
The polls are crap.
IOW: Koch needs to get campaigning.
Wonder how many will follow his lead!
Seems like Jewish voters are easy to fool.
Jewish Voters Favor Kerry, even after kerry uses nazi-like tactics, go figure.
The poll done by the National Jewish Democratic Council has already been debunked as a bias poll.
Needless to say a majority of American Jews will vote for Kerry. However, the President will cut into their hold over this segment.
Totally mis guided article. Most of the Jews who favor Israel's survival know Kerry would allow them to be overrun by the U.N. favor of Muslims.
The Jews who are no longer Jews but are Bolsheviks (ala, Karl Marx, and his ilk,)will always defend communism before Israel.
Therefore the poll should say, Jews who are really Bolsheviks favor Kerry, and the Jews who are for Israel back Bush.
Ops4 God BLess America!
“The work the Bush administration has done over the last three years to reach out to Jewish voters has been largely unsuccessful,” said pollster Anna Greenberg, who conducted the poll for the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC).
Boy, I hope this doesn't prove to be true.
I've done a lot of thinking about this stuff lately, and most of it is so politically incorrect that I'm a little hesitant to post it even at FR, but it's really, really depressing.
Let's see him try to support both sides. This should be fun.
Arabs supporting Kerry right now is definitely NOT a plus.
"Terrorist for Kerry/Edwards 2004"
"Al Quata and Kerry. A winning team."
Hmmm, what would you call fighting a bunch of psychos who want to kill Jews? If Jews want to vote for Kerry, then I guess they don`t mind those psychos running amok. Maybe Jews can also ask Kerry how his homeland France has been treating them lately.
So much for "Never again!"
And so do the Palestinians, and so does al Qaeda, and so does Osama bin Hidin, and...
".....Koch needs to get campaigning...."
Likewise Giuliani....maybe the convention will be the kick-off day for both of them to start some serious campaigning. Time is getting short.
The Dead Rabbits' lawyer is on line 2.
The article said, Despite Bush’s reputation as what one Republican called “the best friend that Israel has ever had in the White House,” the president’s full-term effort to court Jewish Americans has failed, according to a new poll that shows him trailing Sen. John Kerry.
However no numbers are provided. Hmmmm could it be that Bush now has a sizeable minority? 25%? 30%? 35%? 40%? 45%? 49%?
Sorry, but I get suspicious when liberal polls don't post numbers.
RileyD, nwJ
(For anyone who thinks this is perhaps too far-fetched, just remember, that even after massacring 17 Olympic athletes at the '72 Munich Games, Arafat's terrorist organization PLO got an "observer's seat" in the General Assembly.)
Arabs see Kerry as another 'appeaser' who will bow to the forces of "Pan-Islamic Nationalism".
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