http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/foreign-policy-hands-voice-disbelief-at-romney-cai

Genesis please moderate yourself.

Topic is Jewish voters, not Islamic ones, not Egyptian ones, not a statement about a riot.

It is sad that I could be blocked for up to a week for doing what you did, and yet you as a mod are not held to higher standards, but looser standards apparently.

I thought mods could post as players or mods? Or was that old forum?

I'm sorry, what's the problem with the post? It's a link to an article questioning the judgement of Obama's main rival about questions that will probably influence the Jewish vote.

It's pretty on topic if you ask me

It has to do with Romney in that "votes" are part of a competitive event (an election) in which votes lost by one candidate either abstain or generally vote for the other candidate.  In effect, this thread is framed as an issue within the issue of election result prediction.

Functionally, it's the equivalent of if a candidate made an accidental racial slur against a minority, and someone claimed that the slur ruined that person's chances at winning.  Saying "but his opponent is actively attacking that minority to the point where they would never vote for him even if they did turn against their favored candidate" is still an on-point reply.

EDIT: I'm only interjecting with regards to the question of whether a Romney-related equivalent issue is on point.  I haven't actually read the link enough to give a warranted ruling just yet. 

History would STRONGLY beg to differ with you, Primo.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-voting-in-the-united-states-a-historic-perspective/

I'm trying to find statistics on it... but yeah, it's sort of a given for a LONG time that the Jewish vote generally favors Democrats.

well maybe 2 decades 

well maybe 1 decade

harder to be more hardcore zionist than the Israeli PM

He can say he has a strong connection to the Jewish population and to Israel... but empirically, voting results show that's just not an issue the Jewish vote actually votes on.  Otherwise, that would have resonated at some point in US history.  Hell, Bush should have gained some pro-Israel credibility in 2004, if anything.  However, as can be seen... the only instance in which the Jewish vote actually goes Republican during the past 100 years... is for Hubert Humphrey, which was long before Israel even became a state anyway.  And we're not even talking about close results here.  There are only 2 elections since the creation of Israel in which the Jewish vote in presidential elections is decided by a margin of 20 points or less.  Maybe it's just empirically not an important issue?  Otherwise... there'd be SOME dent!

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/jewvote.html

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/015/orly.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_478

Israel is preparing for war and the government drives a hardcore-nationalist campaign, but many Israelis fear what will happen in a war with Iran. So Netanjahu needs support from the US to show his people that Israel can do whatever they want, because the US will help them. The best picture is he with Obama followed by some hard words from Netanjahu, that would heat up the conflict in a difficult time for the middle east and north africa. As the recent events demonstrate the last thing the region needs is a war between Israel(+US) against Iran. The president of egypt on the other side needs support. Every political move in north africa may determine the fate of the region for the next 50 years.

Obama made the right choice and every voter should think twice before changing sides.

in 1979 Anwar Sadat said, I paraphrase, "Screw this annihilation of Israel bullshit, we want NAP with Israel to concentrate on infra.  There. We won't attack. Unilateral NAP.  You gonna screw that up Jews?"  Since then Egypt has had the benefits of peace.

The rest of the Arab world imagines that it can force Israel to BUY recognition and keeps trying to sell it.  Actually if they copied Sadat and just gave up eliminating Israel they'd reduce a lot of tensions in Israel and US and the US would be more supportive of horsetrading.  But they fail to see the corollary of "we won't agree to not destroy you with invasion" is, "genocidal wars of aggression are on the table"

and that's withotu the interference of the Iranian secret service and its terrorist cadres promoting Shiite militias anywhere that will raise them.

@yell

Egypt made peace with Israel and accepted its existence back in 1979. Another point why it is so important to have good realtions with Egypt.