New Pro-Israel Senator Ties Obama in Poll for President

[Purveyor]

(IsraelNN.com) Republican pro-Israel Senator-elect Scott Brown, who shocked the Obama administration with a stunning victory in a special election last week, tied the President in a new poll by Newsmax/Zogby.

The Republican Senator-elect received 46.5 percent support from respondents who were asked if they would vote for him or U.S. President Barack Obama if elections were held today. President Obama received backing of 44.6 percent.

The immediate effect of Brown’s victory is that the Democratic party no longer has enough senators to stop a filibuster, which the Republicans are likely to enforce to prevent passage of President Obama’s health reform bill in its present form. A longer-term effect is Brown’s strong pro-Israel stand, which apparently found sympathy among voters that elected the first Republican senator from Massachusetts in decades. The special election was held following last year’s death of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy.

Former Bush strategist Mark McKinnon told Newsmax, “The real problem for Obama is that he has lost the middle, and losing the middle means losing independents . . . if you lose independents, you’re going to lose the presidency.” An overwhelming number of voters classifying themselves as independents voted for Brown.

Jewish and non-Jewish support for President Obama’s Middle East policies has fallen sharply since his “reaching out to the Muslim world” speech in Cairo last June, when he called Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria “illegitimate’ as well as illegal. He also called for Israel to halt all building for Jews in the same region as well as in eastern Jerusalem.

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[CreekDog]

1. If this poll didn't say 40% "I don't know" then people are fools

they know next to nothing about Scott Brown or what he stands for.

[quantass]

2. Even Sara Palin/JM beat Obama for a Day....Shiny new toys tend to do that.

It's just the shiny toy syndrome....it only took Palin et al about a week to lose her lead and collapse entirely. Now imagine 3 years from now with Brown. God truly exists if a sex scandal doesn't plague yet another republican such as Brown.

By only tieing with the shit storm Obama is taking where even most of DU woudlnt vote for Obama at this point is truly amazing...amazing for Obama that is. So i have no concerns over Brown...I am still looking for a NEW savior for our party though.

[kenfrequed]

3. Of course...

Israel national news would have absolutely no reason to tilt, slant, or contort any story to come out.

Honestly 70% of Americans couldn't locate Israel on a map and these guys seem to be spinning this result to be an indictment of American Foreign policy?

If anything the majority of Americans would just as soon divest all military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq entirely.

Americans are far more concerned about employment, bankruptcy, losing their homes, losing healthcare, and a better economic future than they are about any sliver of land in the middle east.

Note to Israel National News: Get Real. You are not that important.

[donco6]

4. Silly poll.

No one even knows what Brown stands for on any issue.