Newsmax’s Ronald Kessler is still trying to pry Jews away from President Obama.
In his Dec. 3 column, Kessler complains that American Jews care more about the economy and health care than they do about Israel, and that they also still like Obama. “Advertisements criticizing President Obama on Israel backfired with Jewish voters and more often solidified support for the president,” Kessler wrote, citing polling from the pro-Israel group J Street:
Confirming the results, national surveys conducted by Gallup have found that American Jews have approved of Obama’s job performance throughout his presidency by an average of 14 percentage points more than the rest of the American electorate.
The new poll shows that those who think Obama’s policies toward Israel are hurting him with Jews in America are deluding themselves.
In his Dec. 7 column, Kessler features a spokesman for the Republican Jewish Coalition who took issue with the J Street poll results. This time around, Kessler labels J Street as “left-leaning,” a descriptor he did not apply in his earlier column, and attacks it for being unclear about whether it had accepted money from “left-wing activist” George Soros.
Kessler then touts how the RJC’s polling has found that “the Republican share of the Jewish vote jumped nationally in the presidential election from 22 percent to 32 percent.”