Archive for the 'Jewish voters' Category
Talk To Your Family
Posted on October 10, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Jewish voters, young voters | 2 Comments
Dana Goldstein notes an interesting email from the Obama campaign, which I also received last night. The email encourages Obama supporters to speak with their families and encourage them to support Obama, as well. To my mind, this type of family discussion is the most grassroots form of politics, and I thought the email was [...]
Israelis For Obama
Posted on October 6, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Israel, Jewish voters | Leave a Comment
The latest video making the rounds, courtesy of Jamie:
Maybe this will help to win over some of the Jewish voters still uncomfortable voting for Obama, or maybe it won’t. I’m honestly not sure. I do think it’s a very nice video, though.
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Joe Lieberman Doesn’t Speak For Us
Posted on July 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Israel, J Street, Jewish voters, polls | Leave a Comment
Spencer Ackerman writes about a new poll of American Jews conducted by the new(ish) liberal-leaning pro-Israel lobbying organization J Street. The results are hardly surprising to me, but should be a useful reminder to all the clowns who consistently mischaracterize Jewish voters as only caring about- and voting based upon- how much a given candidate [...]
Obama’s Non-Existent Jewish Problem
Posted on May 22, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Florida, Jewish voters | Leave a Comment
A New York Times piece about Barack Obama’s “Jewish problem” is getting some attention this morning. This time the focus is on the Jewish population in Florida.
James Joyner correctly points out the anecdotal nature of the reporting, but still uses some largely irrelevant polling data to say that Obama might have a real problem. Atrios [...]
What Atrios Said
Posted on May 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Jewish voters, the media | Leave a Comment
Writing the Script
Approximately 12,000 articles will be written between now and November about how Jewish voters have a problem with Obama, and then they will go to the polls and overwhelmingly vote for him. Despite this, no articles will be written about how Jewish voters have a problem with McCain.
Yup.
The script sucks.
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Another Thought On Obama, The Jewish Vote, And Dumb Right-Wing Strategies
Posted on May 13, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Israel, Jewish voters, wingnuts | 2 Comments
I just read a few more blog posts discussing the Barack Obama/Jeffrey “Not the Goldberg of Liberal Fascism Fame” Goldberg interview and the ongoing attempts by certain right-wing smear artists to paint Obama as a closet Israel-loathing anti-Semite. Here’s what occurred to me:
Let these assholes continue to waste their time on this.
Seriously, who cares? I [...]
