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No one's asserted anything like that.There is no way the Jewish vote in this country will in large measure go for Republicans.
see, that's the thing... repubs are silly. they actually have natural constituencies in jews and blacks. blacks are, by and large, very conservative. they're church-going and would be amenable (most, not all) to a conservative message (same as they voted for prop 8 in droves).... but the repubs have a horrible record on social justice issues and racial undertones permeate their message.
jews on the other hand, would be a natural constitency for the repubs because of their greater support for israel. but they don't vote repub in the main for the same reason... .the repubs terrible record on social justice issues and the fact that they've allowed a christian right agenda to permeate the party platform.
silly to turn one's back on one's natural constituents.
where's al d'amato when you need him?
I'm guessing the Republican position of condemning Darwin and embracing social darwinism manages to offend all portions of the Jewish political spectrum. I see no way out of it, so the Jewish vote can just be written off. Republicanism is very big with evangelical Christianity. There really can be no separation here. Evangelicalism is the oxygen along with the social ideals as hydrogen that make up the Republican view of the world. One would not say that tossing the oxygen would make for a better quality of water. Won't work.
Support for Israel is totally divorced from feeling about Judaism as a religion. When it comes to catfights between cousins, like between Taiwan and China, North and South Korea, etc etc. we should just support the more democratic state. Japanese and Korean views on religious matters don't interfere with how we treat them, Israel should get the same treatment.
As to the black vote.... to much of the Republican attitude is "Its your own damn fault" if you find yourself on the bottom. The Jews made it, the Japanese made it (with handicaps worse than those suffered by either Jews or Blacks here) so what's your problem? That attitude won't work well in garnishing votes either.
Republicans might garner a bit of the black vote if they made educational improvement their main social agenda item. Get schools that are responsive to the needs of the parents and the students rather than to the administrator and the unions, and get an education system that gives students the tools they need to succeed. it is the area where Republicans can get the most gains, where their message might have the most resonance, and the constituency might be the most grateful.