The poll, which has interviewed over 650 Jewish registered voters each month since June, shows American Jews growing increasingly comfortable with Obama since July, when the Illinois Senator tied up the Democratic Party nomination. The poll shows support for McCain among Jews stood at a high of 34% in June, before beginning its downward turn in July after Obama’s nomination.

….But thanks for holding up the minority opinion end of things.

http://catholics4mccain.org/?p=263

And while it’s all well and fine that rich people can afford to adopt a few kids, (there are only about 40,000 adoptions in the US each year), most people can not even though they’d like to. I’ve never heard any substantial proposal to make adoption easier from any Republican ever. If anything, they want to make it more difficult. So I have no idea what you’re talking about there.

I endorse ol’ “Stuart” in MN. He may be a lousy actor, but he’s a brilliant and reasonable, independent and educated man. Not only that, but he’s the heir to one of my favorite politicians of all time - Paul Wellstone, who died so tragically, and was replaced so cynically. Wellstone, in my opinion, is ten thousand times the man Norm Coleman could ever be. Al Franken, like me, holds Wellstone up as a true American political hero. For this reason almost alone, I endorse Franken over Coleman.

I’ve never liked Michelle Bachman and always felt the only reason she got elected was because she was a card-carrying memeber of the GOP “Hot Woman” club. The GOP has been recruiting these gals for some years now, and most of them are vacuus stooges. I disagree with her on pretty much every issue, but especially the Radical Christian Right nonsense. Her support for such sleazy backdoor theocratic schemes like Intelligent Design and mortuaries for aborted babies is just plain disgusting. I hope she loses and loses big. I’d vote for Spongebob Squarepants before I’d vote for her.

Honeycutt is an odd character. Why she’s a Republican is beyond me. She says we “must encourage strong two-parent families,” but it seems to me that the decline of the two=-parent family directly corresponds to the right of the cheap-labor Right. She says universal healthcare “has failed in other countries,” but has yet to point out just exactly which countries to which she’s referring, or how our system is any better. She blames the always high number of failed start-up companies on taxes and regulation, but historically the numbers have always been about the same, regardless of taxes or regulation, and most small businesses are too small to much if any taxes anyway.

I don’t know enough about Lynn Lechler to think one way or another about her.

I do like Linda Lingle, though I do disagree with quite a few of her positions. But as a governor, most of those issues are rather irrelevent. Personally, I think McCain should have picked her for the veep. That would have been brilliant.

I have no more of a problem with Orthodox Judaism than any other religious belief. I’m not religious, so… whatever. I kinda feel for them, though. I think they fear that the American diaspora is wiping out Judaism, but history has shown that this usually doesn’t happen for all that long. Something always happens that brings the Jews back together again. I don’t know if it will be the troubles with Israel, or perhaps a renewal of tension between Christaians and Jews. I tend to think the latter because the vast majority of the diaspora resides among Christians, not Muslims. Groups like the RJC seem to be pushing this scenario along - making Israel a American partisan wedge issue. I believe that’s a huge mistake, as support for Israel has been bipartisan for many years now. But I don’t think it will be the Left that turns on Israel, but rather the Christian Right. The Christian Right never really have trusted Jewish people and one day their true face will show. Hopefully it wil not be the sort of horrific affair as we’ve seen in the past.

JMJ