GOP group behind negative Obama poll

[Nambe]

Source: Politico

A Republican group is taking responsibility for a poll that has roiled the Jewish community by asking sharply negative questions about Senator Barack Obama.

The Republican Jewish Coalition, which is launching a campaign against Obama on behalf of Senator John McCain, sponsored the poll to "understand why Barack Obama continues to have a problem among Jewish voters," the group's executive director, Matt Brooks, told Politico. ...

... Brooks, however, denied that the poll was meant to influence Jewish voters, and said it was a traditional poll meant to gauge the opinions of Jewish voters. ...

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080916/pl_politico/13516;_ylt=AgIzuzGSL0FQQmLgFs9.6y6s0NUE

[Captain Hilts]

1. It's not a poll. nt

[cosmicone]

2. Hatchet job it is and it will backfire n/t

[DemFromMem]

3. Huge consequences

The "poll" may have had a marginal positive effect for McCain, but the JTA will likely pick up the story and it will be written about in every Jewish newspaper in the country. Jewish voters are highly informed and overwhelmingly Democratic voters (Kerry got 80%). Recent polls had been showing the McCain had the opportunity to pick up perhaps an additional 10%. Now the campaign is seriously worried that Palin is costing it dearly with this constituency (hence scheduling Palin to speak at an anti-Iran UN rally). I am very optimistic that Jewish voters considering switching this year will stay in the fold thanks to the disastrous VP pick and obnoxious tactics by the Republican Jewish Coalition.

[DainBramaged]

4. Sarah Plain will be booed SOUNDLY at the demonstration by our Jewish friends

they do not take kindly to 'end timers'. And I bet that 'ole Sarah has never seen a Hasidic Jew in rekelekh with shtreimel before in her life, and a gaff is forthcoming from her that will be mind-numbing.

[snake in the grass]

5. This slime...

must be exposed. They should hound these fuckers until they regret even being born by giving them the O'Reilly treatment; 'why do you hate democracy?' or 'why do you hate America?'. I have family members who are voting for McCain because Obama is a Muslim, a socialist, or inexperienced. At first I tried reason but their skulls are impervious to logic or facts. Now I just ridicule them or treat them like I would treat any other dumb fuck with blood on his hands. The reason why they have continuously gotten away with it is because they have met no resistance. Their attitudes are like balls of snot hanging from their noses and we should point and laugh until they are so ashamed that they crawl back under the rock from whence they came.

Thanksgiving is going to be tense this year.

[Ian David]

6. Yes, they must sway the 14% of Jews who vote Republican. n/t