My gloating friend, the Pinko Commie, posted this link to our shared Google Reader page today.
It talks about the fact that in a recent poll of 900 Jewish folks, Barack Obama was more poular than Joe Lieberman. This is clearly about Iraq and Joe's supposed defection (though really an ousting) from the Democratic party.
Now I love my peeps, but next to Blacks, Jews are the most monolithic block of voters out there. Two things:
1) Lieberman, though ousted from his party, still won in a landslide in a very moderate (though left leaning)state with a large Jewish presence
2) The fact that Obama only has 60 percent of Jews polling for him now is amazing. The last president to get only 60 percent or less of the Jewish vote (besides Jimmy Carter who got votes taken away by an Independent) was Adlai Stevenson in 1956. This, mind you, was against Dwight Eisenhower, liberator of Nazi Germany.
Anyway, the neo conservatives and the Hasids will change all that eventually. And if i have anything to do with it, so will I.
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ReplyDelete1. JL strayed from the democratic party line with his unconditional support of bush's handling of the iraq war. however, he completely alienated himself by endorsing and now actively campaigning for the other party's presidential candidate. unheard of. no wonder he's democratic persona non-grata. which leads us to...
2. while JL won 50% of the CT vote -- bolstered by independents and republicans -- the nutmeg state is having serious buyer's remorse right now, and his popularity is at an all-time low. so much for his landslide.
3. interesting point on jewish voting history for democratic candidates. however, the trend line is most definitely in obama's favor, and previous elections have shown similar trends for democratic candidates at similar points in the race. i'll bet my yarmulke (and $100) that mccain will not get 40% of the jewish vote nationally in november, whether or not lieberman pulls a zell miller and speaks at the RNC convention.