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Finding Obama guilty of insufficient devotion to Israel

Has there ever been another country besides Israel to which American politicians are required to vow absolute allegiance?

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  • Wednesday, May 14, 2008 09:05 PM

    Palm Beach voters

    Confusing, because like most US Jewish communities, the Palm Beach Jews to whom Goldberg appeals are "Democrats except when it comes to Israel." If I had previously described them as GOP voters I would have revealed my ignorance, but this type of Jewish voter could be described as DINO in the making, because more and more issues will be perceived by them as "Israel related". Here is an interesting poll observation:

    "Counties using electronic voting machines are shown in red. You can see that Broward and Palm Beach counties (which have very large populations and lean strongly Democratic) swung much more toward Bush than was typical for counties where Republicans won less than 47 or 48 percent of the vote in 2000."

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