As far as the inexplicable Jewish vote, it’s a head-scratcher for sure, but undoubtedly a case of the strength-through-weakness (and vice-versa) principle –the ancient Greek “edynamothesan apo astheneias” if Jamie Irons is watching –applied here as “tradition”. “Tradition”, that which has been most reliable through the millenia as a survival behavior, was flipped upside down (the marxist trope), strength-to-weakness, in the election.

Also, there’s the whole overlay of urban vs rural miscommunication; urbanites adapted to close proximity are necessarily verbal while rurals with space to spare solve not by debate but by distance (‘going out to the barn for awhile’). So urbanites can easily see McCain’s rurals as slightly retarded. Especially after eight years of GWB’s wildly unsuccessful attempts to bridge that verbal/non verbal imprint.