McCain's Jewish Problem

His problem, you see, is that Jews are generally progressive. A new poll by Gallup finds that in a prospective match up against Barack Obama, McCains loses among Jews 2 to 1.

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Despite the continuing effort of the right (and some Hillary supporters) to depict Obama as a Muslim, Hamas-loving, Israel-opposing friend of Farakhan, he's doing just fine among Jews, thank you very much.

According to Gallup's aggregated tracking data for all of April, 61% of Jewish voters would vote for Obama, much higher than the national average of 45% of all registered voters.

But surely the Wright controversy took a toll on Obama's support among Jews. Ah, no.

Rather than declining between March and April, support for Obama versus McCain among Jewish voters has increased slightly, from a 23-point margin in favor of Obama (58% to 35%) to a 29-point margin (61% to 32%)

Yikes, McCain has a serious Jewish problem.

Obama, by contrast, is doing famously with Jews. Too bad there weren't more of us.