Michael Goodwin
writes for
The New York Post that Obama is driving Jews out of the Democratic Party. He asks, in the voice of a friend:
Given Obama’s hostile treatment of Israel, isn’t it time for Jews to have their Ronald Reagan moment?
Goodwin's friend makes reference to this Reagan comment:
I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.
It happened to many Roosevelt Democrats, not just Ron Reagan. Goodwin believes:
Without doubt, the party under Barack Obama has left those Jews who view Israel’s security as threatened.
Gallup surveyed 88,000 Americans through June and found that 55 percent of Jews approved of the president, while 41 percent disapproved. Among all religious groups, Muslims gave him the highest approval, at 72 percent.
The 55 percent Jewish approval marks a big decline from the 69 percent of the Jewish vote Obama got in 2012, and the 78 percent he got in 2008.
All of which doesn't mean Jews are ready to vote for the GOP but perhaps they'll stay home. I'm betting Hillary will be hawkish enough to keep them in the fold in 2016, at the cost of turning off the peace-at-any-price lunatic left fringe which finds the great power status of the U.S. distasteful.
