Reply #80: I Would Rather Vote Clark, But Kerry's Our Guy Now [View All]

[GiovanniC]

I don't need to get "excited" per se about John Kerry in order to be motivated to vote for him... My motivation and the motivation of many others comes from wanting to rid myself of Shrub.

If we can be perfectly blunt about things for a minute, most voters don't give a good goddamn either way about the Israel/Palestine issue. Most people don't even know what the Israel/Palestine issue is. They just hear a story about Israel attacking Palestinians with helicopters, or Palestinians blowing up buses, and think, "What a fucked up area and/or group of people."

There is a tiny minority of the American public that has SUPER STRONG opinions one way or the other in the I/P debate. Of that minority, most people side with Israel, typically for religious reasons. Historically, Jews have been strong democratic voters. I'm not making a value judgement here, just stating reality as I perceive it.

If sides are going to be taken one way or another, supporting the Palestinians will lose more votes than supporting Israel.