Jews and the 2008 Election

[shaayecanaan]

from Commentary:-

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-preview--jews-and-the-2008-election-14385

"Once again, Republicans and politically conservative Jews find themselves engaged in wrenching discussions about why the Jewish vote is so unyieldingly Democratic when the GOP can honestly claim it is a far better friend to Israel and the Jewish people than its rival. In fact, its support for Israel has earned it so little in the way of credit from the American Jewish community that it can only be seen as a matter of underlying principle."

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"The question now is whether Republicans have any hope of winning the Jewish vote at any point in the future. The answer is: Perhaps. In a generation. If certain demographic trends hold firm. In November, the Orthodox Union compiled a list of precincts “with high-concentrations of Orthodox Jewish voters,” from which it was clear that the Orthodox tend to vote Republican in much higher numbers than the Jewish community overall. Indeed, it is even possible that the Orthodox constitute a majority of the Jews who vote Republican. Given that the Orthodox are younger than the Jewish average, and are proportionally growing much faster, over time one might expect the share of Jews who vote Republican to increase."

[ZombieHorde]

1. Although this is fine for the I/P forum, this should also be posted in GD.

A major theme of this article is American elections.

[shaayecanaan]

4. Havent you heard?

No one who posts here posts in GD. Thats because we're hard-hhoar, bitches.

I just checked GD a couple of minutes ago, the most recent post was "Why doesn't MSNBC have a HD channel?" and I was like "OMIGOD, WHY???" and then I thought "why do I have a ten-year old CRT television?" and then "why don't I even have cable TV?". And then I remembered, its because I keep sending my weekly paycheck to Hezbollah. Probably just like everyone here I guess.

That's why.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Isn't it something of an anti-semitic calumny

to suggest that American Jews care more about the welfare of a foreign country than they do about the country they are citizens of? Why doesn't anyone call out Commentary magazine on that?

[bemildred]

3. That's very funny.

"Why don't liberal American Jews vote for conservative Republicans?"