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Meanwhile...over at NewsMax.com:

"Just as Latinos are escaping the Democrat barrio and blacks have begun to run from the Democrat plantation, Terry McAuliffe and company have a new migraine to cope with...

...Artemis Strategies announced today, citing a poll of 600 Jewish voters in central and south Florida by Michael Cohen, vice president of Fabrizio, McLaughlin (that):

Bush gained 7 percent more Jewish votes in Florida in 2004 than in 2000.

He crushed Sen. John Kerry among those who cited terrorism, national security or Israel as top concerns.

He won 27 percent of Jewish Democrats in Florida, whereas Kerry took only 4 percent of Jewish Republicans."

I believe one of the reasons we went into Iraq was to stave off a potential military threat against Israel. Saddam Hussein's Iraq was vehemently apposed to Israel's existence. The two most egregious affronts to Israeli sovereignty were the Scud missiles fired on Israel during first Gulf War and, most related to the War on Terror, his regimes supporting of suicide/homicide bombers by paying a reward of $25,000 per bombing to the families of the bomber.

I think young Jewish Americans realize that the only friends Israel has are mostly conservative Americans. The Israeli state is seen as illegitimate by half the Arab world and just hated by nearly all of the European Union. It would strike me as deal with the "devil you know" for Jewish Americans to vote for the conservative candidate (such as Bush) whom is most likely to help protect Israel.

While I don't think protecting Israel was first and foremost on President Bush's agenda, the fact remains, whatever drove him to depose Hussein, also helped protect Israel. It doesn't surprise me that in turn he picked up more Jewish votes on Election Day.

If the trend of Latinos, African-Americans and Jews voting for Conservatives/Republicans continues then the Democrats are going to need more than "soul-searching" to reposition themselves as a true opposition party. They're going to need all new constituency groups.