Arab-American support declines for Bush and Kerry.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04120/308263.stm

Bush sours Arab Americans, poll says
Support for Kerry also declines

Thursday, April 29, 2004
By Ann McFeatters, Post-Gazette National Bureau


WASHINGTON -- Arab Americans in four states that are expected to be crucial in the Nov. 2 presidential election continue to be disappointed with President Bush, whom they helped to elect in 2000, a new Zogby International poll has found.....

Since late February, support for Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has fallen 5 percentage points among Arab Americans in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to the poll. Support for Bush has held steady but remains well below what he received in 2000. Support for Ralph Nader, a Lebanese American who is mounting an independent campaign much like his Reform Party candidacy in 2000, has fallen by 6 percentage points.

If the election were held today with a confrontation only between Bush and Kerry, Kerry would win 49 percent of the Arab American vote in the four states, while Bush would receive 30 percent, and "others" would get 21 percent. Once Nader is added to the mix, Kerry would earn 45 percent of the vote, Bush would gather 28 percent, and Nader, 14 percent......

James Zogby, head of the Arab American Institute, an active Democrat and the brother of pollster John Zogby, said Kerry "didn't help himself" when he recently backtracked from criticism of the barrier that Israel is building on the West Bank to separate Palestinian areas from Jewish settlements. Palestinians consider the fence an effort by the Israeli government to unilaterally set boundaries for a truncated Palestinian state.....

Kerry cannot afford to turn his back on the Nation of Islam, and he cannot afford to ignore this message. Kerry speaks about us all being in the same boat..Farrakhan says Black Christians, Black Jews, and Black Muslims have always been united in a way that White Christians, White Jews, and White Muslims have never been.

Maybe the time has come to stop ripping those who expect something in return for their support of political office seekers, and to see that these promises are fulfilled or else demand some real consequences!

The Arab Muslims I've spoken with don't like to be compared to the Nation of Islam - they say they're completely different.

would it be more shocking to for members of the Christian Coalition to not want to be associated with members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

My ex husband is an Arab Muslim (meaning, of course, that the love of my live, my son, is half Arabic) and they don't consider the Nation of Islam as truly Muslim.

There's nothing wrong with either - but they're not the same.

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Kucinich, appeals to Arab-Americans and Jews alike.

Kerry should listen more and talk less.

in your sig?

But far too liberal for most Arab-Americans.

Kucinich, by the way, is an Albanian name.

I'm a Clark fan. Hee hee

:)

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poll the second-most populated Arab-American community in the country?
BTW, that's in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.

Zogby, you shame my son's heritage.