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‘I Am Not a Muslim’: Obama Woos the Jews

February 27, 2008 - 8:01 am - by Allison Kaplan Sommer
Jill
2008-02-27 10:19:11

Allison, I live in Ohio, my rabbi attended that meeting, I am Jewish and I have to tell you, the Jewish vote isn’t key to Ohio per se, most likely it’s weighty only in NEOhio and then, only in Cuyahoga County.

Even then, the county’s population is 1.3 million, and there are about 80,000 Jews in the same area, all of whom are not of voting age.

I value the posts that work to elucidate all the ways in which Jews along the political spectrum review the kind of information that Sen. Obama has reviewed. I figured you might appreciate having someone on the ground in NEOhio, who is also a Jew, keep things clear.

FYI – the JTA published the transcript a couple of days ago. See more here.