You just dont get it, do you? Jewish Dems provide about half the soft money coming from individuals to the Democrat Party. If you peel off about half of the "significant" Jewish donors (there are about half a million in this country), then youve delivered quite a blow to the chops to Democrap fundraising. Thus all the angst over this rift among Party leaders.
Thats the real reason the Pubs would not write off the "Jewish" vote, or treat it as insignificantly as you do.
Perhaps in the wake of the Left's unbridled support for the PLO, and their coddling of the "poor, defenseless" terrorist prisoners and hand-wringing about their "right," things WILL change.
But Leftist political sentiment is ingrained in that community, just as it is among blacks. It's not going to happen overnight.
And I do understand--and am now educated--about the 40% of the Jewish vote for Reagan. But Torie posted a link to an interesting article at Reply No. 24. Read it.
It shows that the "Jewish vote" is completely enamoured of the Clinton-Gore era. They voted for Clinton and Gore like they were the Messiah.
Go figure.