Saturday, July 12, 2014

Muslims: Obama's Strongest Supporters

The Washington Post reports the results of a Gallup poll that finds Obama is "hugely popular" among U.S. Muslims. Seventy-two percent rate him favorably. I doubt there is a single COTTonLINE reader anywhere who finds this surprising.

Obama wins the support of no group of U.S. Christians. All non-Christian groups give him majority support. An interesting finding for a notionally Christian country.

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Given Obama's strong popularity with America's Jews and Muslims, you'd think brokering a peace between Palestinians and Israelis would be a cinch for him. The contrary has proven true, the Kerry initiative went nowhere.

The situation is more violent now than when Kerry started, although perhaps he made it no worse. Israelis and Palestinians kill each other without external provocation.