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with about 900 other Conservative (as a sect, not as a political bent) Jews, who, by and large at least in my congregation, are living like WASP's and voting like Puerto Ricans. Huge numbers of Kerry voters there - the Bush folk, and there are a few, are generally quiet, getting short shrift when they are foolish enough to open their mouths from those of us who have had enough. Many I have 'unscientifically' polled are interested in getting the neo-fascists out of the government, irrespective of their religious orientation. Douglas Feith is from around these parts and many of us knew him back in the day, as they say in South Philly. No one cares about the fact that he's Jewish, that Wolfowitz is Jewish, etetc. They don't like what's happened and the true political conservatives may be angrier in a sense than the liberals and centrists.
A fair number of those who often vote Repub - we are great ticket-splitters in PA, claim they're voting Shrub out. Recall that the recent elections in PA swung on the Philly suburban counties going Dem due to the choice issue perhaps primarily, as well as the influx here of liberals from the city itself, including a great number of gay and lesbian couples and associated families, as well as people of color and those Main Line women who know that their daughters might have to choose to have an abortion if things go horribly wrong at one time or another.
Fascinatingly, the boro in which I live was Repub or its equivalent for literally 230 years - not any more. The local Repubs are apoplectic - it's really great. It all started with the Clinton election in 92 - folks realized that it was possible to change some minds out here. That with the influx mentioned above changed matters remarkably.
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