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Old 04-30-2012, 01:31 PM
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Default Obama’s Jewish support rises over past six months, AJC poll finds

Yup...It's in the Media section for a reason...This article READS "Obama lost a ton of support with Jewish voters", but the headline READS "Nothing to see here! Everything's great!!!!"...

Obama’s Jewish support rises over past six months, AJC poll finds

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President Obama enjoys the support of three-fifths of American Jews, according to the latest American Jewish Committee survey, a significant improvement over where he stood half a year ago in the organization’s polling.

The poll, released Monday, shows Obama with 61 percent of the Jewish vote, as opposed to 28 percent for Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is the likely Republican nominee.

That’s an improvement for the president over an AJC survey in September, when Obama scored 50 percent and Romney 32 percent.
They start out giving Obama a major back rub, but look at the SCORCHING NUMBERS in the real world...which should've been the headlines...

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But it’s still substantially lower than the 78 percent Obama scored among Jews in exit polls in 2008 and an improvement for Romney over the 22 percent garnered by the previous GOP nominee, John McCain.
In other words, the poll shows that Obama is DOWN 17 points from his election and the Republican nominee is UP 10 points...

So when the opening line of the article says "President Obama enjoys the support of three-fifths of American Jews", it SHOULD say "Obama has support of ONLY three-fifths of American Jews, which is down from the OVER three-fourths he originally had."...

This crappy article is one, big lemonade stand for the master...
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Most Jews I ever met were damn smart. Going on that assessment I'd guess they are not going to vote for Romney.
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Most Jews I ever met were damn smart. Going on that assessment I'd guess they are not going to vote for Romney.
60W bulb in a 100W world...

The OP is about how the story was reported, which was made very clear in the OP. It's not about whether you think Jews are smart or dumb, it's about the crap job of reporting that passes for journalism these days. The bottom line FACT is that Pres. Obama's support by Jewish people is down SUBSTANTIALLY from when he was elected. But if you read the headline, you would think that it's up. It's called cherry-picking data to try to show the picture you want to see. Any reported with any level of integrity would have reported that while recent trends are showing improvement, his support among Jewish people is still down substantially from the last election. THAT would be good reporting. But in order for you to admit that there's a problem with the media, you'd have to accept that your blind, unreasoning hatred for anything or anyone who doesn't worship at the throne of Obama just might be ever so slightly unjustified.
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Any reported with any level of integrity would have reported that while recent trends are showing improvement, his support among Jewish people is still down substantially from the last election. THAT would be good reporting.


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60W bulb in a 100W world...

The OP is about how the story was reported, which was made very clear in the OP. It's not about whether you think Jews are smart or dumb, it's about the crap job of reporting that passes for journalism these days. The bottom line FACT is that Pres. Obama's support by Jewish people is down SUBSTANTIALLY from when he was elected. But if you read the headline, you would think that it's up. It's called cherry-picking data to try to show the picture you want to see. Any reported with any level of integrity would have reported that while recent trends are showing improvement, his support among Jewish people is still down substantially from the last election. THAT would be good reporting. But in order for you to admit that there's a problem with the media, you'd have to accept that your blind, unreasoning hatred for anything or anyone who doesn't worship at the throne of Obama just might be ever so slightly unjustified.
Ironic that people who listen to Bright Bart and repeat everything Fox and Hard right news sites say as gospel would be interested in honest reporting. So I thought I'd add some reality to the debate at least.
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Ironic that people who listen to Bright Bart and repeat everything Fox and Hard right news sites say as gospel would be interested in honest reporting.
Say what you want about Fox News and the "Hard" right.

But Andrew Breitbart has been deceased for less than two full months now.

It strikes me as rather unseemly to be frivolously corrupting his name, under the circumstances...
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Say what you want about Fox News and the "Hard" right.

But Andrew Breitbart has been deceased for less than two full months now.

It strikes me as rather unseemly to be frivolously corrupting his name, under the circumstances...
Because he was a liar? No. I held my tongue and didn't desecrate the thread on his death ( more than I can say happens when Liberal icons kick the bucket).
But he is fair game now, if for no other reason than he was active to the point of his demise in corrupting minds.
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Because he was a liar?
No, he wasn't. But wanna know who is?



Maybe not, but see how easy that is? Name calling.
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Boy speak the truth about their heroes and they get antsy.
Truth hurt?
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Say what you want about Fox News and the "Hard" right.

But Andrew Breitbart has been deceased for less than two full months now.

It strikes me as rather unseemly to be frivolously corrupting his name, under the circumstances...
Breitbart was an ASS and being dead doesn't change that.
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