Posted on 08/30/2011 9:12:26 AM PDT by dead
Funny, she doesn't look Jewish.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing a new challenge: He's having trouble raising money from some Jewish donors who mistakenly believe one of his opponents, Michele Bachmann, is Jewish.
Some Jewish donors are telling fund-raisers for Romney, a Mormon, that while they like him, they'd rather open their wallets for the "Jewish candidate," who they don't realize is actually a Lutheran, The Post has learned.
"It's a real problem," one Romney fund-raiser said. "We're working very hard in the Jewish community because of Obama's Israel problem. This was surprising."
Like other Republicans, Romney is trying to capitalize on President Obama's waning support among Jewish voters, who are upset with his administration's policies toward Israel.
Romney moved to quickly position himself as an alternative to Obama among well-heeled Jewish contributors in places like New York, New Jersey, Florida and California -- a group Obama locked down in 2008.
Romney has been pushing the message that he is a common-sense, business-minded candidate who is a strong supporter of Israel.
The message was among the reasons he was atop the polls until last week, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry bested him in the latest surveys.
Now, with this latest hiccup among Jewish donors, some in Romney's camp have been wondering whether Bachmann and her allies are pushing the "Jewish" rumor to help their own fund-raising, sources said.
She has enjoyed strong popularity among Jewish voters and often talks about her stay on a kibbutz during the summer of 1974, when she was a teenager...
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I live in NYC, 99 times out of a 100, if you hear a name even remotely like Bachman, you can bet the person is jewish.
Its kind of like the name bloomberg, or green, she has a pretty ethnic jewish name.
Sidenote: Funny story, former NY met and NY Yankee David Cone was often mistaken for being jewish, and used to get frequently (and still does) invites for jewish events and functions, its actually considered unusual and unique trivia for people to discover that he is not in fact jewish.
The only time I believe a politican ever actually genuinely discovered they had jewish heritage was former Governor and Senator George Allen.
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