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Friday, July 01, 2011

Sweet: Obama losing the Arab vote too

James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, warns that Arab-American voters may also be turned off by Obama's stance on the Middle East peace process:
Now, with the growing awareness and organization of Arab Americans and American Muslims, there are other consequences to this behavior. Backing away from a smart and tough approach to Israeli-Palestinian peace may make a few hard-line supporters of Israel happy, but it can alienate Arab and Muslim voters in some key swing states.

The bottom line: the calculus involved in the search for Middle East peace needs to be matched by a more complicated set of political considerations closer to home.

The bottom line is that he's not making anyone happy. Heh.

Labels: Arab vote, Barack Hussein Obama, James Zogby, Middle East peace process

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