Jews Could Cost Obama a Florida Victory

Oh, happy day!  The Jews are starting to wake up.  Now, we have to be realistic; the majority will still remain loyal to Obama, but more and more are fleeing from him, and it's beginning to take a toll.

Read from Israel Matzav:

Obama doesn't have enough 'Jewish vote' to win Florida

It would be sweet if the Jews of Florida cost Barack Hussein Obama his reelection. My own view is that one of the selling points that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush may be using in touting Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl) as a Vice Presidential candidate (Hat Tip: Memeorandum) may be Rubio's ability to sway the Jewish vote in Florida to the Republican side. Whatever it is the Republicans are doing, it seems to be working. If the election were held today, President Obama does not have enough Jewish votes to win Florida.

One of Obama's biggest hurdles: capturing Florida's Jewish voters. The president, polls show, has about 60-65 percent of the Jewish vote, but, says [Democratic pollster Doug] Schoen, if Obama does not win “a full 75 percent...it could, in fact, be decisive.”

The state is “effectively deadlocked,” said Schoen, the author of “Hopelessly Divided: The New Crisis in American Politics and What It Means for 2012 and Beyond.”

“Jews are necessarily torn, because they see the president as somebody who, aspirationally, has committed himself to Israel,” he said. “At the same time, there have been concerns about the settlement policy and also about the nature of his commitment to do whatever it takes in Iran.

“Now I would tell you he has provided probably more advanced weapons systems to Israel than any president before, but – nonetheless – there are these nagging concerns in the Jewish community that just haven’t gone away.”

Read the whole thing and watch the video (which I could not embed). Every vote is going to count. Especially in Florida.