First exit poll of actual American votes from Israel shows big McCain win

Thursday, October 30, 2008
[Tom Gross]
Within the last hour, the first exit poll of 817 Americans in Israel, who attended U.S. election voting events in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to vote by absentee ballot, has been released.

A startling 76 percent of those polled said that they had voted for John McCain. This contrasts sharply with pre-election polls of American Jews in the U.S., which indicate a strong preference for Obama.

The exit poll findings of American voters in Israel are all the more surprising because less than one in four were registered Republicans, and 46% of registered Democrats living in Israel said they had crossed party lines to vote McCain. By contrast, the Republican crossover to Obama was minimal – just 2%.

The votes are significant as almost half of the 42,000 registered U.S. voters living in Israel come from key swing states including Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In the 2000 and 2004 elections, Israel had the third-largest group of American voters abroad, after Canada and Britain.The exit poll was commissioned by Votefromisrael.org, an independent, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting voter registration and participation amongst American citizens living in Israel.

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McCain finally wins one!!!

{{{{DRUDGE POLL}}}} WHO WON THE FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE?... MCCAIN
74%
105,403 OBAMA
25%
35,968 NEITHER
1%
1,798


By Ross Balano, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices panelist 2008

John McCain finally got the better of Barack Obama in the third and final debate.

Obama was reduced much of the time to speaking in three word phrases being careful not to say the wrong thing or trying to think of exactly what to say.

McCain was assertive by contrast. In fact the best line of the night came from McCain: “Senator Obama, I’m not President Bush! If you wanted to run against President Bush you should have run four years ago.”

When the topic turned to negativity in the campaign, McCain again backed Obama into a corner when he mentioned the charges leveled by John Lewis against McCain. McCain said, “Senator Obama, you didn’t repudiate those remarks.” Indeed, Obama still gave no hint of repudiation of those remarks.
Obama found himself on the defensive when the topic of Bill Ayers came up. “The American people,” McCain said, “deserve to know the truth” when talking about Obama’s relationship with Ayers, and when McCain accused him of being untruthful because Obama had pledged to accept public funding for the campaign and then backed out. “You didn’t keep your word” McCain said.
McCain spoke in favor of increasing and exploring all forms of energy including new drilling off shore while Obama did not agree.

McCain rightly called Obama on his votes against immediate care for infants born alive as a result of a botched abortion. Obama could do nothing but deny (not true, he really did vote against the bill) and then say that there was already a bill like it in force, again not true.

Being behind in the polls allowed McCain to let loose and go for broke. He did and was easily the winner tonight.

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2445


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