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1:30 am CST - September 14, 2012
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Jewish Support for Obama Drops Sharply Since 2008, says Poll
Admin’s difficult relationship with Israel
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Obama’s support among Jewish voters is down 19% since his 2008 election victory, a new poll reveals. Conducted during the Democratic National Convention’s omission of God and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel from their platform, only to have an effort to reinsert the two items booed by Obama delegates — further found that Romney garners 35% of the Jewish vote, the poll says.
The poll — recent Investor’s Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor/TIPP Poll, released Monday, found that while President Obama leads in overall polling — 46% to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 44% — his support among Jewish voters has dropped from 78% in 2008 to 59% today.
Six percent of Jews indicated they were currently undecided, according to the poll. In 2008, 1% of Jewish voters cast their ballot for a candidate other than Obama or McCain.
Jonathan S. Tobin at Commentary Magazine, who initially noted the drop, pointed out that the decline is unmatched in any other demographic groups.
He chalked the decline up to the administration’s relationship with Israel.
“While some losses in Jewish support could be put down to disillusionment with his economic policies, which is shared across the board, the only conceivable explanation for this far greater than average loss of Jewish votes is the administration’s difficult relationship with Israel,” Tobin wrote.
The telephone poll, which surveyed slightly more Democrats than Republicans, queried 808 registered voters across the country from Sept. 4–9.
It has a margin of error of plus/minus 3.5 percentage points.
Gov. Mitt Romney’s 35% showing amongst the Jewish vote is up from Senator John McCain’s 21% showing in 2008, the poll says.
11 Comments
Natalie Rosen
2:46 pm CST
September 14, 2012
I am very Jewish and I SUPPORT the president 150%. My Jewish brethren you do NOT want to see a war with Iran, you do NOT want to see your Social Security and Medicare played with. This president is yards better than his opponent and there is NO question in my mind whom I support and I am a big supporter of Israel. Israel’s destiny does NOT lie with either Netanyau OR Romney that is for sure. My Israeli friends get yourself a president who KNOWS what he is doing and forget pandering to fundamentalist nonsense!
Obama 2012 — 200%!!
Amelia
3:19 pm CST
September 14, 2012
Fundmentalist. As in Christians. My goodness…. The atmosphere in this country has turned toxic towards the faith that helped form our democracy. Almost every institution of higher learning was founded by Christians,… as was most of our hospitals. Go to any inner city and the food banks and missions are run by Christians. When a nation decides that one group of people are better off…. nonexistant… I mean that is how I feel so many believe….You know what? I believe there are two groups that are hated by the world. Christians and Jews. But it is weird that Jews hate Christians or that Christians hate Jews. Christians went to the death camps with the Jews for trying to hide them in their homes…. But I guess there is always the writings of Martin Luther in his old age and the history of the Crusades that we will be judged by forever. No matter how much we pray for the Peace of Jerusalem… Oh I have one more thing to say. For all the proclamations of progressivism…. Susan B Anthony went to a Christian revival in Senaca Falls, where she and her friends heard that in Christ there is neither male nor female, slave nor free…but all are one. (from the new test)…She then started the Womens Movement. The Abolitionist Movement was also largely a Christian movement as William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tudman…I could go on and on… were all Christians. I will be Progressive when God leads me to be progressive, and I will hold to Conservative traditions when God leads me to. But I will never, EVER follow one party over a cliff!!!!
Karen
6:14 pm CST
September 14, 2012
I am very proud of my Jewish roots, I listen to my jewish friends and see that they hold basic liberal values, but they see what Obama is doing to Israel and our thinking twice about voting for Him. How can any Jew believe that Obama has their backs. He has never shown that he cares,look at his background, be smart and look into your heart before you vote for him, learn about the man before you vote for him!
Sonny
12:34 pm CST
September 14, 2012
How could any Jew who cares for America or Israel vote for the socialist Obama? I can’t understand why any rational person would vote for him and his two faced lying policies. Any president who tries to destroy America and don’t care about Ameica or Israel should be impeached, but our government is too corrupt to do the right thing. We are goverened by a bunch of politicians who only care about themselves and no one else.
Ron
8:05 pm CST
September 14, 2012
WHY I LIKE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Throughout the past four-plus years, I believe my knowledge of American politics and my learning curve about the nation’s dazzling panoply of cultures have grown exponentially, thanks to our Great Teacher in the oval office. As such, I’ve recently concluded that Barack Obama has been good, if not very good, for America and the world. Hopefully, many will agree with my positions and be able to reach the same definitive conclusion: that President Obama has put his personal imprimatur on the famous tagline that “Diamonds are forever” within the context of personal philosophies and an unwavering, unchangeable and unalterable adherence to an ideology of destruction. However, allow me to explain the many reasons why I have reached the supposition that Mr. Obama has swayed me into affirming that his administration has been such a huge plus:
1. The president has enabled me and every other thinking observer to understand that his special hatred for the Jewish state is palpable which he has been able to spread like the Black Plague (no racism intended). This is partially based on the DNC’s initially omitting the word “Jerusalem” from its party platform, then adopting the Holy City in its catalogue of deception aimed not only at the Jewish World but to the tens of millions of Xtian Evangelicals and other staunch supporters of Israel as well. As I tuned in to the convention when the vote spun an about-face on that one word, I watched and heard three phony voice counts, since at least half of those shouting out their “yes’s” and “no’s” on the proposed change, voted in the negative, especially among the quite-angry Arab-American – a presumptive oxymoron – community. Further, my president and his ruffled minions have developed the keen ability to take verbal swipes via a barrage of humiliating discourse and actions aimed at Israeli leadership, including Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, which has created a canyon-like rift between Israel and the U.S. I believe we should thank Mr. Obama for purposely allowing us to see his deep-seated beliefs which have caused the almost total deterioration of a 64-year relationship via vicious statements and pointedly outrageous attacks by not only him, but as well by Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Susan Rice, Samantha Power and other equally outrageous highly-positioned political and military operatives who would rather “stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
2. All of us have been given the marvelous opportunity of watching the arrogant, narcissistic leader of the Free World, a position which has provoked an outpouring of angst by impassioned and infuriated Americans, most of whom believed – and still would like to believe – that America really is a freedom-loving republic. Since Mr. Obama has taken the oath of serving as POTUS, we have now been taught that our sacrosanct U.S. Constitution has been stomped upon, and is nothing more than any other piece of paper. Sort of like taking the Talmud away from the Jews and declaring the texts illegitimate, too provincial and unfit to create a solid foundation of moral law. There’s nothing like being educated by a Constitutional “scholar” whose intermediate goal in life was to become a community agitator, which in and of itself is a permanent scar on the path to his presidency. Who wouldn’t agree that legitimating little ACORNS growing into even larger nuts is part of American values? Which leads me to my next point.
3. Even prior to becoming president, Mr. Obama showed us the way to do things. Unfortunately, it was the wrong way; however, remember all of us had, and still have, the ability to discern the difference between a cocaine-snorting, communist-influenced, Muslim-soaked youth and most of the rest of society. We need to applaud the fact that Americans actually voted in this man to be our anointed commander-in-chief, a position which apparently now includes disposing of an Oval Office bust of Winston Churchill, bestowing on the Queen of England an iPod, and hosting Muslim Iftar celebrations while exculpating the National Day of Prayer. Pay attention, please. Our knowledge of these actual facts is important because it permits us to happily peek into the window of what’s circling the DC beltway, is already in the White House and in our government agencies, scattered throughout the land, and is a mortal and immoral threat to our nation’s underpinnings of freedom and our very existence. If you guessed it was carbon emissions, you would be wrong. If you guessed Muslim admonitions to establish sharia law via violent jihad, you would be correct. And there’s no one – and I mean NO ONE – in this administration with the political will to step forward and denounce the overtly apparent love-fest between our Chief Mufti and the folks who perpetrate honor killings and misogyny. Isn’t it amazing to learn that the conservative elements of America continue to be the recipients of the canard that they’re the perpetrators of the War on Women? See? I told you Obama is truly a great teacher, especially after he thanked all of his Middle East buddies, other than Bibi, when he made his infamous speech in Cairo only months after his investiture to let them be know in no uncertain terms what wonderful contributions they’ve made to America. Sort of like Bashar al-Assad contributing to the cause of human rights in Syria. Why should we even voice a complaint about 3,000 dead on 9/11? What nerve Americans have when they complain about sending BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to further the cause of Palestinian and Muslim hatred against Jews? And how dare we question our president’s policies when it comes to Iran? Hopefully, you are now catching on why I think Chairman Obama is so very good for America and global peace. If not, here are some more subjects you can study.
4. By now, we should have all learned that under the aegis and power of the current presidency, the Democrat Party is no longer democratic but are definitely having parties, including those thrown by the GSA at heftily priced resorts. The Democrats are now autocratic, monocratic, enigmatic, dogmatic, antagonistic, splenetic, imperious and smug. Why else would an administration pass, in the most scurrilous fashion, the Affordable Healthcare Act which is neither affordable nor healthy, especially for the economy? Why would this country-loving president, along with complicit henchmen, decide to destroy the integrity of our military by diminishing our nuclear capacity by more than 90%? Why would this Scullion-In-Chief have his criminal attorney-general sue states for enforcing federal laws while looking away from his lying about running guns to Mexican drug cartels? Why would both of these poltroons think that civilian courts should be the venues for trying jihadist terrorists who were captured on battlefields? Why would this shameful Supreme Superintendent appoint known Marxists and Maoists to high levels of government authority? These irrefutable facts and questions are but a few which have yet to be answered by an administration that can only be described as a complete and utter disgrace, not to mention a danger to every citizen of the United States and others who seek nothing more than securing their futures and those of their children and grandchildren. But there are even more queries which have yet to be addressed with honorable intent by a dishonorable president.
• Why has this administration foisted a $16 trillion national debt and pushed us to the precipice of another Greek tragedy?
• Why has Mr. Obama fallen flat on his economic face by destroying jobs for the working class, a la the Keysto¬¬¬ne XL Pipeline fiasco, the attack on Boeing for wanting to open a plant in South Carolina, the Solyndra and other green energy companies giveaway intended to create 5 million jobs instead of destroying jobs, etc. Indeed, no more than 2% of the American workforce is engaged in green energy jobs and that number is dropping as fast as a brick tossed over a cliff.
• His claim that the stimulus would create an additional 3.5 million jobs not only didn’t provide a single employment slot but put the U.S. on a path to a record-setting 8+% unemployment rate for 41 straight months. And why would the Department of Labor under Obama’s administration manipulate and skew the unemployment percentage when the entire nation knows it’s closer to 16%, with the African-American community suffering the worst?
• Why would his hatchet squaw, Nancy Pelosi, claim that the Affordable Healthcare Act would make medical insurance costs decrease when it is already on the record that they have already increased?
• Why can’t his government bureaucrats understand that when we add 30 million people to a healthcare system that’s already on overload, that it will measurably self-destruct and implode?
• Why has this president created a series of culture wars and expect the citizens of America to believe we have a really united nation?
• Why would this administration select a convicted felon and impeached ex-president to nominate Barack Obama for a second term to specifically talk about “values” when he lied incessantly to virtually everyone on the planet?
• Why does this president, along with Democrat sheep, denigrate the entrepreneurial spirit and support the lunacy of the Occupy Wall Street reprobates?
Jewish Democrats sum up to me why President Obama deserves re-election: GM is alive; Osama bin Laden is dead; we gained 4.5M jobs in the past 28 months despite losing 750K jobs a month when Obama came in.
On the surface it sounds good, but the truth is more people were employed when Bush left office than are now; the unemployment rate under Obama is higher than anytime under Bush which means current job growth is horrible; and despite losing almost 30% of the bailout investment ($25 billion of the $80 billion invested), car sales under Obama are weaker than 90 of Bush’s 96 months in office.
How is this for success? Here are some more tasty tidbits:
1) For an average family, it’s now seven times harder to get contraceptives than during the recession! Yes, here are the numbers: The high-end annual cost of contraceptives is $600. Annual income for average families fell by more than $4,500 since the recovery began. $600 fits into $4,500 more than seven times.
2) Gas prices are double under Obama than when Bush left office.
3) Median income for American families fell almost twice as much in the Obama Recovery than in the Bush Recession.
4) The Congressional Budget Office projected days before Obama came into office that the average deficit for FY 2011 and FY2012 will be $381 billion per year. It’s almost four times larger for each of those years thereby killing the dollar, hiking gas prices at the pump and making food signficantly more expensive.
5) 133M people now have jobs. This is less than the 133.5M who were employed when Obama came in, and well below the 137.5M jobs we were suppose to have at the end of 2010 if only we passed Obama’s stimulus. (Even if governments would have not cut any jobs, we would still be millions of jobs short of the stimulus projection.)
6) The Unemployment Rate in the “bad” Bush Era was lower in four of his years than some of the Clinton Years, yet Democrats say “We can’t go back to those years.” Indeed, with Obama we can’t.
7) The average unemployment rate in Bush’s first term was actually lower than Clinton’s first term. The unemployment rate in Bush’s second term was higher by less than one percent than Clinton’s second term. This is how “bad” things were a mere four years ago!
8) If we would have counted the unemployment rate when Bush left office the way we count it now (a major reduction in the EPR), the rate would have been 5.1% when Bush left; which is lower than the endless 8%+ plus Obama is giving us.
9) Home values are now lower than when Bush left office.
10) Net worth of Americans are lower than when Bush left office.
11) Income to college grads in recent years is 10% lower than in the later years of the Bush Era. More than half the grads cannot even find jobs; and one-quarter of young adults moved back into their parents’ houses in recent years because the economy and prospects for a job and income all stink worse than the previous.
12) Obamacare has reduced Medicare and Medicaid grants to states. This explains why New York, for example, cut dental and prenatal care for poor, young, and old.
13) Health Insurers are forced to give more services due to Obamacare. It would have been great if not for them hiking premiums to cover all those “free” benefits.
14) Due to Obamacare, our ability to buy and cover health costs by deducting the expenses from your income and thus reducing your income tax bill, has been cut in half. Worse, many health items are not eligible anymore for this deduction!
15) Aside from giving the order to Navy Seals to kill Osama bin Laden – which Obama opposed when he was in the Senate – he has a big fat zero to show for a foreign policy.
16) Iran recently negotiated a major business deal between India and Afghanistan. No, America was not the mediator. Instead two of our “allies” went to Iran to hammer out a deal.
17) The U.S. asked Egypt quite recently to intercept an Iranian ship suspected of carrying weapons to Syria. Egypt refused, likely because Obama is a joke.
18) Talks between a half a dozen countries and Iran over its nuclear program have completely broken down. I remember when Qaddafi was cowering in his boots in 2003 to give up his program. How far we have come!
19) 35 heads of states; reps from 90 other countries in addition to the U.N. Chief were all in Iran this past week for the NAM summit. Iran is being treated like a reasonable partner for peace on the diplomatic stage.
20) While the NAM summit went on, Obama could not even get Russia and China to back-off from brazenly backing the Assad Regime at the UN.
21) The airplane of America’s top general was hit a bit more than a week ago by the Taliban. One can only imagine what shock the world would have been if the plane was hit 30 minutes earlier or later with the top general on board the plane or walking on the tarmac next to it.
22) In 2012 (as in all Obama years) we lost more troops in Afghanistan than in most of Bush’s years. We have nothing to show for it besides the Taliban shooting at the plane of the Chairman of the Joint Chief’s while Afghan leaders are in Iran.
Make no mistake about it. This administration has been an excellent one for the American people to study because it has awakened an independent and emboldened constituency to the fallacious and fatally flawed programs and philosophy of division, deception and destruction. We will most certainly hear the national death bells if Barack Obama gets another four years in the People’s house. And G-d help Israel.
This is one Jew who will NOT, under any circumstances, vote for the Obamanation in the White House.
Sonny
2:53 pm CST
September 14, 2012
@ Ron, Very good article.
Left wing disinformation campaign to deflate your enthusiasm
4:14 am CST
September 14, 2012
[...] group he didn’t win in 2008; he is not doing better with any group he did win in 2008; not Jews; not young voters; not Hispanics; not Blacks and not [...]
garywfbg
5:51 pm CST
September 14, 2012
Any Jew that would vote for this BHO idiot needs to have their head examined. I pray for the peace in Jerusalum regularly and know how goes that nation is how WE will go—–It’s in the BOOK.
I agree Sonny—Ron has a good article!!!
BTW— Those Jews that so fervantly support BHO in the light of the Israel’s delima, would they in another time have screamed—Crucify Him??? Israel has did nothing but bring peace, democracy and prosperity to that area—seems like a noble thing to me—-why would it be OK for that to be destroyed???
BTW—I’m not Jewish—I’m German descent!!!
CWJensen
4:39 pm CST
September 14, 2012
Well said RON:
I will buy a one way ticket to Israel for any JEW in the USA that votes for Obama.
BTW:
They get a yellow arm band with a star of David so the IRANIAN military can identify them after Obama sell them out.
paulainsc
9:11 pm CST
September 14, 2012
Why would any Jew want a Muslim President who obviously will not help Israel unless he helps destroy them? Anybody know? Anybody?
newrepublicoftexasnews
8:54 pm CST
September 14, 2012
Admin’s difficult relationship with Israel … is an understatement!
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