President Barack Obama personally intervened to change party platform on God, Jerusalem

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50. As a Jewish supporter of President Obama

who would support him regardless of whether the platform addressed Jersualem or not, I'm saying what I know about my community: that there are a great many Jews for whom the elimination of the Jerusalem plank of the platform would create a major problem. Enough to cost Obama a state like Florida? Maybe, maybe not. But not out of the question.

As for your suggestion that my pointing out that Jewish voters have been and continue to be a major element of the party's base, both in terms of voting and financial support is "something out of the Protocols" is not merely ridiculous, its highly offensive.

Yes, Jews are less than 2 percent of the US population. But at 4 percent of the vote in a swing state like Florida, which is likely to be decided by as little as one percent, they are very important. Which might explain why "the American Jewish Community" is one of the specific groups to which the Democratic Party website devotes a page. http://www.democrats.org/people/american_jewish_community