I don’t know. I think it might help John Kerry’s opponent in Massachusetts. I’d like to see Senator Lieberman campaigning for McCain up there, just to intercourse with what passes for Kerry’s brain.
All numerical predictions are shots in the dark, but my guess is, McCain-Palin will do nearly (but not quite) as well with Jewish voters as Reagan did. For one thing (and of course, I hate to make generalizations), I don’t think Jewish voters are as gullible as the straight-ticket Demwit voters out there, and I don’t think the Hizzies and Hamas are going to be able to stay quiet (as they generally do, in part because the partisan media shills don’t give them coverage) until our election is over.
I’m also pretty sure Russia’s invasion of Georgia, and its energy blackmail threat toward Europe (which was immediately followed by what someone used to call a “peace offensive”), plus Russia’s complicity in Iran’s nuclear bomb program, plus Obama’s obvious affinity with and origin in the Moslem community, will push almost 20 per cent of Jewish voters to McCain.
It doesn’t hurt that McCain is older than most candidates and presidents have been.
Ooops, what I meant was, “push an additional 20 per cent” to McCain. There’s always a small chunk of the Jewish vote that goes Republican. McCain will wind up in the high twenties, IMHO.