re: #136 ludwigvanquixote

Yes, but that is a very skewed poll in that it asked if they would consider voting for someone else. It did not suggest who.

Jews as a whole are very dedicated to notions like social justice, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, fair courts for all, equal protections under the law, and resistance to “perfection” by folks like Pat Robertson. We are traditionally really anti slave and anti confederate. We are deeply pro education and pro science as a group. We tend to be pro environment as well.

The only issue that the GOP has is Obama’s less than warm stance towards Israel. The fact that it is not particularly more warm than the GOP stance under people like Reagan, Bush Sr. and Baker is not lost on the educated Jewish voter.

And most of us are pretty well educated.

So the issue is, who that second person would be…

I can guarantee that Palin (in particular, since the culture has a strong aversion to morons) Huckabee, Jindal, etc.. would not carry much of the Jewish vote.

There’s highly unlikely to be a mass migration of the Jewish vote GOPward in 2012, let’s just put it like that.