Republican Jews behind negative Obama poll *

Remember the Republican Jewish Coalition? (Yes, they really exist.) They’ve been pushing real hard for their guy, John McCain, and working against his rival, Barack Obama.

This much is, obviously, to be expected. But Ben Smith at Politico reports that the RJC was also behind a poll that asked Jewish voters their feelings about anti-Obama semi-truths.

Matt Brooks, RJC’s executive director, told Smith that the poll was administered to “understand why Barack Obama continues to have a problem among Jewish voters.”

A large chunk of Smith’s story is after the jump: