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October 30, 2008 | 5:18 pm

Americans in Israel voting big for McCain

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Early election results of Americans living in Israel show a big advantage for John McCain. I don’t expect these numbers, courtesy of DK, to hold for American Jews living at home—the latest poll gave Obama 74 percent of those voters and many Israel-firsters were already voting for McCain. But exit poll data is thus far surprising:

A startling 76 percent of those polled said that they had voted for John McCain. This contrasts sharply with pre-election polls of American Jews in the U.S., which indicate a strong preference for Obama.

The exit poll findings of American voters in Israel are all the more surprising because less than one in four were registered Republicans, and 46% of registered Democrats living in Israel said they had crossed party lines to vote McCain. By contrast, the Republican crossover to Obama was minimal – just 2%.

The votes are significant as almost half of the 42,000 registered U.S. voters living in Israel come from key swing states including Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In the 2000 and 2004 elections, Israel had the third-largest group of American voters abroad, after Canada and Britain.

A Rabin Center for Israel Studies poll published Monday by Ynet also found that Israeli, if they could vote in U.S. elections, would choose McCain over Obama by a 12-percentage-point margin. Surprisingly, Palestinians also prefer McCain.

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Hopefully,American Jews will wake up before it’s too late. Obama is no Jack Kennedy. He’s a thug,who associates with the likes of Rev. Wright,Bill Ayers (whose book was dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan,the assasin of Rbt. Kennedy), Father Phleger, Rhasheed Kalidi(  major money man for the PLO). Are we all not judged by the people we associate? Obama calls Iran a “small country that is not dangerous”. Nazi Germany was also considered not dangerous. I’m a Hillary Democrat,but I’m proudly voting for McCain. Don’t be deceived by Obama,he is a fraud.Ps: Obama also dealt drugs in high school,but you’ll never hear or read that from the mainstream liberal media.

Comment by GGuy121 on 10/30/08 at 8:52 pm

Most American Jews would sell out Israel in a minute. Jews in israel know who can be trusted not to sell them out to the Arabs. And that is McCain.

Comment by Bill Pearlman on 10/30/08 at 10:24 pm

Why is this surprising and startling? Let’s also put the figures into context by noticing that they are of electoral landslide proportions. Those who say that Obama is good for Israel are really saying that Obama will do things that hurt Israel but are for Israel’s own good. The same people who mocked that America burned villages in Vietnam in order to save them.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/02/08 at 1:48 am

Bill, by the same token, most Israeli American Jews would sell out the US in a minute.

Comment by Bill Perlman's Echo on 11/02/08 at 11:42 am

Hot air.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/02/08 at 10:16 pm

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