Obama drives Jews and Catholics to the Right

For years, American Jews have been very solidly behind the Democratic party, but that appears to be changing. President Obama's cool attitude and indecisive policy towards Israel and her security, may very well be to blame. As recently as 2008, 72 percent of Jewish voters identified themseives as Democrats, or stated they leaned towards Democrats at election time. This gave Democrats a 52 percentage point advantage.

The results of a new poll from Pew Research Center reveals that Jewish support for Democrats has declined to 65 percent, while their backing for the GOP has risen 9 points, to 29 percent, leaving a “significantly smaller 36-point margin".

The Center reports, “Jewish voters, who have traditionally been and remain one of the strongest Democratic constituencies, have moved noticeably in the Republican direction".

In his statement directed at the Pew poll, Republican Jewish Coalition Executive Director Matt Brooks said: "This notable analysis from the unimpeachable professionals at the Pew Research Center shows a significant shift in Jewish political identification — a shift toward Republicans and away from Democrats. This was not the softer move of more Jewish respondents saying that they 'lean' Republican, but a solid shift in Jewish self-identification as Republicans."

Obama has also taken a direct shot at the Vatican, and Catholics in the United States by attempting to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortion, and contraceptive services, in direct violation of Catholic canonical law.

This creates another serious problem for the Obama administration. Because of the Republican opposition to Obamacare, Catholics also appear to be moving farther to the right:

"For the first time in recent memory, the number of Catholic Republicans in the House of Representatives, 61, nearly equals the number of Democratic members at 64 or 65. That marks a dramatic shift from two years ago, when there were 98 Catholic Democrats and 38 Republicans. Catholic membership in the Senate remains relatively stable" (National Catholic Register, Dec. 19, 2010).

Because of their refusal to act against illegal immigration in the state of Arizona and elsewhere and their direct assault on the rights of Arizona and her citizens to act on their own behalf, as well as the Department of Justice's refusal to enforce any formal vetting of the citizenship of voters, or other polling station irregularities, the Obama administration has been accused of pandering to illegals, in hopes of gaining votes in the November elections. From this vantage point, that certainly appears to be the case.

In what may eventually turn out to be an extremely inconvenient truth, most of the illegals entering via our southern borders are, in fact, Catholic, and are, it would seem, likely to follow the dictates of their pope and religion.

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