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August 16, 2004

Bush Rues News Jews Haven't Changed Views

This Democratic Party release say that the level of Jewish support for Bush is essentially the save as it was in 2000.

I guess we're going to eventually have to accept the fact that, as regards Jewish support, the GOP can count on William Kristol, Norm Podhoertz, and three Hassidim called "the Yameul Brothers" in New Rochelle, and that's sort of it.

posted by Ace at 02:08 PM

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Alas, my friend, it's even bleaker than that. I'm not Jewish.

Posted by: Allah on August 16, 2004 02:09 PM

I wasn't sure. I assumed based on the "This Jew wants to continue" thing for continuing posts.

I'll change that.

Posted by: Ace on August 16, 2004 02:11 PM

This is dreary news, however consider the source. The fact that Ed Koch has officially endorsed Bush makes me wonder whether or not there may be some peeling away of the vote not reflected in this poll. Remember, between saying your a Republican and marrying a goya, the former is often far worse. I'm not saying that the Jewish vote realligns and becomes Republican, just that Bush get's 30%. 30% is not a huge change, but it would mean the difference between victory and defeat in Florida.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford on August 16, 2004 02:39 PM

PS-antisemite!

Posted by: RS on August 16, 2004 02:40 PM

Oy.

One of these days, I'm hoping some wise man will explain this electoral oddity to me - I've never understood it, and to this day, it makes no sense.

Posted by: Patton on August 16, 2004 02:53 PM

Ah yes, becaue you know the DNC would only deal in hard facts and verifiable analysis.

I can think of a few more names like Jonah Goldberg who definitely aren't voting for Kerry.

Posted by: Eric Pobirs on August 16, 2004 03:01 PM

PSS-Via Dean Esmay Jews for George

Posted by: RS on August 16, 2004 04:50 PM

Hmm, the International Zionist Conspiracy gave me my voting orders months ago and I'm a goy. Are they maybe notifying their own people last?

Posted by: Paul Zrimsek on August 16, 2004 08:29 PM

Rusty-

With all due respect, I think the word you're looking for is "shiksa". I've never heard the word "goya" in my Galiciana Jewish family. Maybe that's because the only goyas I brought home were also shiksas.

Posted by: MarcH on August 16, 2004 09:40 PM

I just as soon have my foreskin reattached with a rusted staple gun as vote for Kerry.

We are legion.

Posted by: Jeff G on August 16, 2004 10:35 PM

Perhaps American Jews voting for liberal democrats have a subliminal desire to see Israel destroyed. Or perhaps their business interests in the very liberal Nor'east outweigh their heritage. Beats me.

Jews voting Kerry--
I'm with Patton, quite flummox'd.
Why do they do it?

Posted by: Don Callaway on August 17, 2004 10:29 AM

I suspect the DNC is blowing smoke (what a surprise!). I was one of the many Jews who voted for Gore (not happily, and I wasn't too upset when Bush won) who thanked G-d that Bush was President when 9-11 occured.

Between family, friends, and members of my synagogue, I've talked with about 200 Jews in last few months. My informal, non-scientific poll shows about a 50-50 split Bush vs. Kerry.

Don and Patton, based on the people I've talked to, the majority of Jews who are voting for Kerry don't think the war on terrorism is a serious issue. They are also not religous. Left wing politics is their true religion, so Kerry makes sense to them. There's a technical term for these Jewish Kerry supporters: morons!

Posted by: David Rothman on August 17, 2004 04:50 PM

I'm pretty sure the Jews I work with are all voting for Bush -- well, they're definitely not voting for Kerry. But then, these guys are Orthodox.

It's probably like the Catholic "split" - those who attend Mass regularly tend to be more conservative in their politics. There are a lot of people who call themselves Jewish who never go to synagogue (and there are lots of "cultural Catholics", too, which =really= makes no sense.)

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
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That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
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Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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