Friday, October 03, 2008

Richard Silverstein Analyzes AJC's New Jewish Opinion Survey

I think Richard is reading too much into the data. The supposed decline in support for Obama doesn't strike me as statistically significant, and I'm guessing with leaners added to BO's total he gets close to the 2/3 share that is more or less the Democratic benchmark... besides, to put this into perspective, McCain's hewing to the neoconservative hard-line is bound to maximize his share of the vote among the 30-40% of Jews who are one-issue (i.e. Israel) voters, but will alienate a numerically much greater number of moderate voters, both Jewish and non-Jewish.
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