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J-GOP on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:30:40 PM
According to an article from Adam Smith in the St. Petersburg Times, Democrats are fretting over the apparent divisions within their party, and the rift is clearly apparent with Liberal Jews.
"In the 66-some-odd years I've been doing this, this is the saddest election I've ever worked in,' said Ginger Grossman, a prominent Democratic organizer in Miami-Dade County, who says she hears countless Jewish liberals tell her they won't vote for Obama if he wins the nomination. 'It's outrageous, and it's breaking my heart. I know it's because he's black, or I feel it is,' said Grossman, a Clinton supporter who said she would also vote enthusiastically for Obama. 'The worst of it is when they start calling him a Muslim and say, "Why aren't they using his name, Hussein?" I pray God it can be overcome. It's devastating, but I'm hoping I can change it.'"
So does this mean that liberal Jews might turn away from the Democrat party come November if Obama is the nominee? Many political pundits think this might happen for two reasons:
The first, has to do with Reverand Farrakhan's support for Obama where he spoke before 20,000 followers at McCormick Place in Chicago and said: "He (Obama) is the hope of the entire world that America will change. A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."
The second has to do with the clear record of support that Senator McCain has had for the State of Israel over the many years he has been in the Senate. Could it be that many Jews feel that with a middle name of "Hussein" and a Muslim father, that Obama's support for the Jewish state could be as somewhat questionable should he ascend to the Presidency? Only time and his comments on the political trail will tell.
But one thing is clear. The seeds of doubt remain in the minds of many Jewish voters. Despite what pollsters may say at this early stage, the truth will become clearly apparent when Jews get behind that voting curtain and pull the lever either to the left or to the right.