tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749031.post793545453452472999..comments2023-10-17T10:51:35.255-04:00Comments on ...Of Cabbages and Kings: What to watch for in the polls--forget precisionJoel Shurkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601737202428103535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749031.post-86869204238109030552008-10-24T09:42:00.000-04:002008-10-24T09:42:00.000-04:00Good points. Good enough to convince me to stop ev...Good points. Good enough to convince me to stop even bothering about polls!<BR/><BR/>Similar topic: Glenn Greenwald has a very apt piece on punditry of which I quote the first few paras. Check it out;<BR/><BR/>http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/<BR/><BR/>Another myth fallen: Obama's "Jewish problem"<BR/><BR/>Salon's Mike Madden and Walter Shapiro undertook a very difficult task today: mining through the virtually endless possibilities in order to identify "The punditocracy's Seven Biggest Blunders of the 2008 election." As I wrote earlier this year in The National Interest: "the record of the American pundit class with regard to the 2008 presidential election can be summarized in one word: wrong." So I don't envy Madden and Shapiro's job of having to choose the top seven from that lengthy list.<BR/><BR/>The seven "blunders" they describe are certainly large and embarrassing, but there is a new one worth adding to the list: namely, Obama has a "Jewish problem," and Republicans are thus likely to attract a much higher percentage of the Jewish vote than even before. That theory was propounded all over the place, including by then-Weekly-Standard blogger and now McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb, who claimed earlier this year: <BR/><BR/> Obama has a Jewish problem, whether or not it's merely guilt by association is irrelevant. Politics is about perception, and the perception is that Obama's one step removed from the Nation of Islam.Darohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02965288170032365125noreply@blogger.com