‘Tectonic rift’ in Jewish Americans’ opinion of Obama

daily caller ^ | 6/29/10 | Caroline May

[Nachum]

Support for President Obama is waning among America’s Jewish population, polls indicate, a shift driven primarily by the president’s policies toward Israel.

The London Telegraph reported this weekend that Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, described the state of U.S.-Israeli relations in bleak terms, saying the two nations “are in a state of tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart.” While Oren since has asserted that he was misquoted and that his words were less incendiary than reported, even relatively disinterested observers can see that relations between the allies are strained.

McLaughlin & Associates, a national polling company, recently released the “National Survey of Jewish Voters” which reported that while Jewish voters favored Obama 78 percent to 12 percent in the 2008 presidential exit polls, currently, “only 42 percent of voters would re-elect him, while the plurality (46 percent) would consider voting for someone else.”

[Windcatcher]

I can’t help but wonder if all these polls presented two sets of results: those including the greater New York metro area and those not. I think the results would be very telling.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Not to mention a lot of money.

[Think free or die]

It is, especially considering the lower cost of living in small southern towns.

[sheik yerbouty]

The credo of liberal “faith”..