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(114,904 posts) Sat Jul 28, 2012, 07:56 AM Jul 2012

Mitt Romney eyes gains among Jewish voters

GOP backers of Mitt Romney are mounting an aggressive effort to attract Jewish voters. | AP Photo
By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS | 7/28/12 7:01 AM EDT

LONDON – It has become a predictable quadrennial ritual: Republicans claim this is the presidential election that their pro-Israel credentials will translate into crucial gains among Jewish voters.

Even though, Republicans haven’t cracked 25 percent of the Jewish vote since 1988, GOP backers of Mitt Romney - who arrives in Israel Saturday - are mounting what will likely be the most aggressive effort yet in dollars and cents to woo one of Ohio and Florida’s most pivotal constituencies.

And Democrats, alarmed by the drumbeat of news about how much money Jewish casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is donating to the Republican cause, are responding by forming their own operation to spend millions defending President Barack Obama on Israel.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/79071.html#ixzz21ux1TN7H

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SB: Mittens Sucks Up To Likudniks... KharmaTrain Jul 2012 #1

Or is he sucking up to fundies? pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #2

KharmaTrain

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1. SB: Mittens Sucks Up To Likudniks...

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sat Jul 28, 2012, 08:04 AM

Jul 2012

He'll go over and fawn all over his "long lost friend" Bibi (who claims he never met or knew Willard)...and spew all the talking points to make Sheldon Adelson all hot and bothered but beyond the 10-15% of American Jews who are Likudniks it won't mean squat to the rest of American Jews. Despite the right wing's attempts to demonized this President as being a "moooozlim" or an "anti-semite" or "anti-Israel", President Obama will handily win the Jewish vote again this year...

pinboy3niner

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2. Or is he sucking up to fundies?

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sat Jul 28, 2012, 08:13 AM

Jul 2012

Israel figures prominently in their end times beliefs. Ironically, many who are very anti-semitic in their views are the staunchest supporters of Israel because of their religious end-times beliefs.

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