Forward reports:
According to a new survey conducted by the Forward, a disproportionately large share of the Democratic party's super-delegates are Jewish. Many of them have declared their support for Hillary Clinton, accounting for more than 15% of her current backers.
The break down: out of 246 superdelegates that have declared for Hillary, 36 are Jewish. For Obama, 12 Jews out of 200 total. That leaves 26 undeclared Jewish supers according to the paper's count. The story goes on:
Susan Turnbull, who became a vice chair of the DNC in 2005, told the Forward that she has begun organizing get-togethers for Jewish DNC members at the party's national meetings in recent years, and occasionally communicates via e-mail on issues of mutual concern, as when, several years ago, she was helping to pass a DNC resolution against divestment from Israel.
Kind of makes you wonder what this group's reaction to the Pastor Disaster was. Wright has been a vocal advocate of divestment from Israel (which is itself a "dirty word" according to Wright). I'm not sure those comments are controversial enough for Obama to have skipped Church on the day they were uttered, but if Obama got the Rev's newsletter, he must have been aware of the campaign. Wright wrote in the newsletter's July 2005 issue:
Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to wake Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.
It'll be interesting to see which way the rest of the Jews break.