US President Barack Obama is enjoying a 50% approval rate, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll published. The president should also be satisfied as top-level Jewish fundraisers from his 2008 campaign are sticking with him in 2012, Jewish newspaper Forward reported.
According to the paper, despite reports that Obama faces a loss of Jewish funders due to his Middle East policy, analysis of a list of elite bundlers from his 2008 race shows no defections among the president’s top Jewish supporters in 2012.
The poll should come as good news for Obama as former US President George W. Bush enjoyed a 47% approval rate three months prior to the 2004 elections.
(Source: Ynet)
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Give me a break. These polls are skewed Democrat 32 to 25%. This is just the left-wing media, the Forward included, trying to pump up a radical left-wing socialist president. America rejected him in the last mid-term election and they will reject him again in Nov 2012. That is as long as Ron Paul is not the Republican nominee. Then even I will vote for Obama.
It makes sense, all the people they are talking about are frei Jews whose views on social issues, economics and the Middle East are reflected in Obama’s policies. Very few frum Jews are significant Democratic donors.
The overall approval ratings probably should be going up since the domestic economy is improving slightly, and the international situation isn’t collapsing (and Americans are increasingly in an isolationist mood – which may or may not be good for Israel – good if you feel Israel can defend itself, bad if you feel Israel is a disaster waiting to happen and therefore needs goyim to protect it).
“The poll should come as good news for Obama as former US President George W. Bush enjoyed a 47% approval rate three months prior to the 2004 elections.”
For a Republican president, 50% of the Jewish vote is great news; not so for a Democrat president.