New Poll: Jewish Democrats Really Are Deserting Obama

What's in a poll anyway?

According to Gallop: Solid Majority of Jewish Americans Still Approve of Obama: with 60% ready to vote for Obama.

Based on "several dozen" interviews, Politico came to the conclusion Obama may be losing the faith of Jewish Democrats

Did someone say may be losing the Jewish vote?

Take a look at this from Tevi Troy at The Corner:

Poll: Only 43 Percent of Jews Would Reelect Obama


Secure America Now has just released a new poll showing that only 43 percent of Jews plan to vote to reelect Obama in 2012. If this holds, it would be a considerable drop from the 78 percent of the Jewish vote Obama received in 2008, and from the standard 75–80 percent of the Jewish vote that Democratic political strategists have come to expect and rely upon.

The bipartisan poll, done by John McLaughlin and Pat Caddell, also found that Obama is likely to have particular trouble with Jews in the all-important state of Florida, as only 34 percent of Florida’s Jews would vote to reelect him. Unsurprisingly, Obama does better among Jews in blue states like California, Illinois, and Maryland, but Republican strategists are unlikely to contest those states heavily, whereas the Florida vote really matters.

That's 43% according to the McLaughlin/ Caddell poll as opposed to the 60% finding by the Gallup poll.

If the Obama campaign was ready to go on the offensive to hold on to the Jewish Democratic vote before, when Gallop claimed 60% of the Jewish vote was Obama's, imagine how antsy--and aggressive--the Obama campaign will be now.

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