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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks on January 21, 2008, 06:22:58 AM
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Chaim, I would like to see your take on this poll, in particular. It seems to me that in an extremely tight race like South Carolina's, Huckabee might have been harmed--and possibly done in--by the fact that observant Jews could not vote for him because it was Shabbat (the secular Jews, being overwhelmingly liberal, would have had no problems voting for Hanoi John).
Yes, they should have voted by absentee or mail-in earlier, but you have to assume that a few of them didn't bother to do that.
Chaimfan
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Chaim, I would like to see your take on this poll, in particular. It seems to me that in an extremely tight race like South Carolina's, Huckabee might have been harmed--and possibly done in--by the fact that observant Jews could not vote for him because it was Shabbat (the secular Jews, being overwhelmingly liberal, would have had no problems voting for Hanoi John).
Yes, they should have voted by absentee or mail-in earlier, but you have to assume that a few of them didn't bother to do that.
Chaimfan
interesting theory, and could also been a contributing factor.....
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Yu shud put this in Ask Chaim section. It coud be a one of the reasons.
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Huck is a christian, so no.
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Now this might be wrong, but I have always gotten the impression that most Jews are democrats anyway, or if they're republicans, they're on the liberal side of the party. This is what I've encountered, at any rate.
Jews already make up a relatively small portion of the population, and the right wing Jews among them who would have voted for Huckabee would have made up an even smaller portion.