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05/09/2008: "Jewish Super-Delegates Could Swing Vote Towards Hilary"
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.
"Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law," said Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council and the author of a book about Jews and American politics. "We now are overrepresented in all these areas."
The relatively high number of Jews among super-delegates highlights a larger political shift that has occurred in recent decades, according to Forman. Although Jews have always been well represented on the American left, he said, historically they have tended to gravitate toward causes, such as the labor and civil rights movements, rather than active participation in party politics.
[ Isn't that what you might call "the Jews ruling America"? ]
http://www.forward.com/articles/12998/,/