Sunday, May 9, 2010

New Poll Makes Sense

On April 22 we posted a link to a poll saying American Jews were unhappy with Obama's treatment of Israel.. However, they approved of his foreign policy. We said these two findings didn't make sense together.

Here is a more recent article on Israel National News.com which reports a poll by the McLaughlin Group. These results make more sense. The findings:
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.
American Jews have been most of the brains and, along with the unions, most of the money supporting the Democratic Party. For a Democrat president who seeks reelection to alienate this key constituency seems ill-advised. Nevertheless, that is what is happening.