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Israelis still prefer McCain

by mtippett | August 4, 2008 at 01:27 pm | 109 views | 2 comments

It's kind of shocking to see this pass as news. Apparently:

A new poll finds 38 percent of Israelis still would rather see Obama’s Republican rival John McCain elected U.S. president, compared to 31 percent for Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
That’s slightly narrower than the 9-point edge held by McCain in a poll conducted in late June.

The new poll surveyed 499 Jewish Israeli respondents in Hebrew by phone on July 30 and 31.

But futher down we learn about the author of the study:

Mitchell Barak, director of KEEVOON Research, Strategy & Communications, the independent Jerusalem-based firm that conducted the poll. Barak, who was raised in the U.S. and worked briefly for the Republican Jewish Coalition

So what the headline should really read is "Former GOP pollster claims that Jewish, Hebrew speaking Isrealis prefer McCain by a small margin". Sometimes I wonder why I even bother reading this nonesense.