We weren't specifically pointing out Jewish voters at the time, but - as everyone knows - most Jews are liberals who vote Democratic. Here's a testimony from one denizen of Manhattan's Upper West Side who has reconsidered:
In the liberal precincts of Manhattan, a supporter of President Bush for re-election feels isolated among old friends who overwhelmingly espouse an “Anybody But Bush” conviction, sometimes with an emotion that reflects an eerie personal hatred. Their argument almost never contains praise for the policies or personas of Kerry-Edwards, only a condemnation of Mr. Bush.Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: Israelis prefer Bush to Kerry by a wide margin.
FURTHER UPDATE: President Bush is aggressively seeking the Jewish vote.
UPDATE: Everyone's favorite Jewish liberal for Bush:
How much of his party does Koch speak for? We won't know for sure until Election Day, when exit polls help gauge how many Democrats crossed party lines to support Bush. But Koch knows he's not the only Democrat to regard the war against militant Islam as the most critical issue of the campaign. And he doesn't think he was the only one dismayed by what he saw at the Democratic convention in July.
From Michael Moore's seat of honor next to Jimmy Carter, to the thunderous applause that greeted Howard Dean, to the 9 out of 10 delegates who want to pull the plug on Iraq, the convention exposed the radical antiwar mindset that dominates the Democratic Party leadership.
But hasn't Kerry pledged to stay in Iraq and to go after the terrorists? "That's what he says to appeal to moderates and conservatives during the campaign," Koch replies. But the party activists who nominated him would compel him to back down once he was in office. The people now running the Democratic Party want no part of the war, and "when the chips are down, Kerry will do what they want."
It bears repeating: This is a faithful Democrat talking. And it is as a faithful Democrat that Koch so sharply resists his party's left wing. ("The radicals don't like me," he once wrote. "And they have good reason, because I despise them.") Though he calls himself a "liberal with sanity," he governed the largest city in America as a decided centrist. Twice he was reelected in massive landslides. New Yorkers came to trust Koch's instincts and judgment because they resonated so closely with their own.
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I've been registered as a member of the Democratic Party since I became old enough to vote in 1979. I didn't vote for Gore last time (voted for Browne), but I am voting for Bush. I fit right into the profile: liberal on most issues but hawkish on foreign policy. And Jewish, too.
Kris Hasson-Jones snippy@pacifier.com
Dude, don't vote for Bush, he's screwing up our country.
I can't bring myself to vote for Bush because of his active pushing of the marriage amendment....I am gay, and that thing scares me to death. No matter how good Bush is on other important issues, such as national security and Israel, the FMA is a deal-killer for me.
That seems to be Andrew Sullivan's position as well.
For me, Kerry is so bad on national security, and so demogogic on outsourcing, and such a sleaze in general, that I couldn't vote for him. I find people who take the war on terror seriously yet can't stand Bush (Sullivan, Jarvis, etc), are trying to talk themselves into believing that Kerry will support their views, but I think they are deluding themselves, because his record and many of his pronouncements just don't support that. He will bring home the troops too early and let Iraq be taken over by Iran, he will suck up to Iran, he will start the useless shuttle diplomacy with the Israelis and Palestinians, he will try to get protectionist laws passed which will strangle the global recovery . . . and guess what? The FMA would not pass with either of them in the WH.
Yeah, because the marriage amendment that has no chance of passing will cause you to be lynched in the village square; whereas, the terrorists will just invite you to a tea party.
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