Posted on 05/09/2010 9:14:43 AM PDT by Nachum
United States President Barack Obama has lost nearly half of his support among American Jews, a poll by the McLaughlin Group has shown.
The US Jews polled were asked whether they would: (a) vote to re-elect Obama, or (b) consider voting for someone else. 42% said they would vote for Obama and 46%, a plurality, preferred the second answer. 12% said they did not know or refused to answer.
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the list, ping
Obama’s support among Jews should be 0%. Zero. Nada. He is a Jew-hating anti-Semite and anti-Zionist who wants to weaken Israel to the point where the Arabs can destroy her. He wouldn’t lift a finger to help Israel in a crisis. Any Jew who supports Obama would be like a Jew supporting Hitler in the 1932 German elections.
My guess: 90% of the half that would "consider voting for someone else" would do so for about five seconds, and then go ahead and pull the lever for Obama.
This is progress, I realize.
From Newsmax:
“3. Jews for Sarah Palin Website Launched
With American Jews concerned about President Barack Obama’s stance on Israel, a new Jewish group has been formed to express support for Sarah Palin, an outspoken backer of Israeli policy.
While Obama has protested Israel’s construction in annexed East Jerusalem, Palin has said she opposes a freeze on settlement growth.
“I don’t think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand,” the former Alaska governor told Barbara Walters.
Now Benyamin Korn, a former editor of the Jewish Exponent, has founded Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin, “and his efforts are part of some recent Jewish support that has been trickling in the direction of the hockey mom from Wasilla,” the Jewish publication Forward observed.
Korn has also launched a website, JewsforSarah.com. According to the site, “Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin is an independent group of academic, religious, and political leaders, dedicated to promoting consideration of Sarah Palin’s political positions in the wider Jewish community.”
The site went live in mid-April, shortly after Obama suggested the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute was endangering American troops in the Middle East.
Jewish support for Palin is gaining traction. Shortly before the 2008 election, Republican vice presidential candidate Palin garnered an approval rating of just 37 percent among Jewish voters in one poll. But Forward observes: “Even though American Jews have repeatedly disapproved of her in large numbers in poll after poll, giving her abysmally low approval ratings, her recent high-profile jabs at the president have earned her support from some of the most prominent Jewish conservatives today.”
One of those conservatives, Norman Podhoretz — former editor of Commentary — went so far as to say in a March Op-Ed piece for The Wall Street Journal that he would “rather have Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office than Barack Obama.”
Korn faces a tough challenge in gathering support for Palin among American Jews, considering that she has referred to the United States as a “Christian nation” and questioned the separation of church and state.
But Forward notes that “with an increasing number of American Jews anxious about what they see as the undue pressure that Obama is applying to Israel, Korn thinks that more of them will come to see Palin’s value.”
“Poll: Obama has Lost Almost Half of his US Jewish Support”
I’ll believe them horse-apples on election day.
They like Emmanuel and Axelrod pulling 0bama’s strings.
The Dem just got 62% of the vote in the Florida 19th Special Election, so the Jews to GOP is still a unicorn.
Also from Newsmax:
4. Obama Reaches Out to American Jews Over Israel
The same concerns over President Barack Obama’s relationship with Israel that led to the creation of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin has spurred Obama to reach out to the Jewish community in America.
Obama had lunch at the White House on Tuesday with Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, a staunch supporter of Israel, “as part of an effort to mend fences with American Jews upset by the administration’s stance against the Israeli government’s construction of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem,” The New York Times reported.
Obama won about 77 percent of the Jewish vote in the 2008 presidential election.
The lunch meeting came three weeks after Wiesel put his name to ads in a number of U.S. newspapers criticizing the administration for pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the Jewish construction.
“Pressure will not produce a solution,” Wiesel wrote in the ad. “Jerusalem is the heart of our heart, the soul of our soul.”
The ad followed similar ones from the World Jewish Congress and complaints from members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, according to the Times.
After emerging from Tuesday’s lunch, Wiesel pronounced that recent tensions between Obama and Israel were over. “There were moments of tension,” Wiesel told reporters. “The tension, I think, is gone.”
The night before the lunch, senior White House officials had spoken before the national leadership conference of the Anti-Defamation League. And Obama called Netanyahu on Monday to discuss plans for indirect American-mediated talks between the Israelis and Palestinians. But it “remains unclear” whether Obama’s outreach will reassure American Jews and Israelis, the Times observed.
Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and vice president and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, said: “The real charm offensive needs to take place in Israel. I would accept it was a charm offensive if he caught a plane and went over there, which he needs to do.”
With his attitude on Israel, you have to wonder how he has any support at all from Jewish people.
Translation=They don't support Obama but they're politically correct and afraid of coming off as racist.
I’d bet 100% of Palestinian-Americans support Obama.
46% said they would consider voting for someone else.
Translation.....
46% will consider voting for a different Hard Left Democrat.
The point we should not miss here is that was about OBAMA, not about dems. Zero is not running for reelection till 2012 and unless the GOP candidates in the mid term can make a good case that a vote for their opponent is a vote for Obama’s anti Israel policies, they are NEVER going to get that vote.
“With his attitude on Israel, you have to wonder how he has any support at all from Jewish people.”
Exactly ... and, add “Hymietown”, er, NYC and Wall Street to that spurned list.
Actions speak louder than words. I will believe it when I see it at the ballot box. Until then, it’s all a crock.
He has also lost the working class blacks. It was a novel idea to have a black President, but they realize they picked the wrong one. The working class blacks are hurting as much as anyone else. They will turn on him when they loose their businesses and homes, just as everyone else is.
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