Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Obama Loses Jewish Support

Politico reports Jewish Democrats are getting turned off with President Obama's lack of support of Israel, and overt support of the Palestinians. I've been wondering when, or rather if, this would happen. The article says the following:
Based on the conversations with POLITICO, it’s hard to resist the conclusion that some kind of tipping point has been reached.
Based on conversations with my Jewish friends, the most the GOP can hope for is their non-support of President Obama. Going all the way to voting for a Republican is probably more than they are able to do.

Evangelical Christians' support for the GOP seems to make voting Republican an impossible task for many Jews. Nevertheless, if in Florida a substantial fraction of Democrats stayed home or voted for third party candidates, that could swing the 2012 election.