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Endorsement Season in Presidential Politics
By MORRIS J. AMITAY
WASHINGTON — The
national political scene as it
relates to Jewish concerns is
heating up with new state-
ments and endorsements in
Washington.
Senator John Glenn of
Ohio received the public
endorsement for his
Presidential candidacy
from Paul Tsongas of
Massachusetts, a fellow col-
league on the Senate
Foreign Relations Commit-
tee. Among those who know
how the committee lines up
on Israel-related issues,
Tsongas and Glenn were de-
scribed by a former staff
member of the committee as
"two peas in a pod." Both
have in the past been
lukewarm supporters of Is-
rael at best.
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has been extremely critical
privately and in closed
committee sessions of the
Israeli government and its
policies in the so-called
West Bank and in Lebanon.
His endorsement of Glenn
can be contrasted with Sen.
Paul Sarbanes' endorse-
ment of Walter Mondale.
Sarbanes has been a
tenacious and consistent
supporter of Israel over
the years, and perhaps its
most unswerving friend
on the Democratic side of
the committee. Before
announcing his own sup-
port for Mondale, Sar-
banes sought to make
certain that Mondale's
views and record on the
Middle East matched his
own.
Glenn, who has publicly
acknowledged his difficul-
ties with the American
Jewish community over Is-
rael, once again sought to
allay fears by a recent
statement to the Near East
Report — the pro-Israel
Washington-based weekly.
His statement, however,
almost pointedly ignored
those specific issues which
rekindled the very same
fears after his February
speech in Cleveland to a na-
tional Jewish audience,
specifically: sophisticated
arms sales to hostile Arab
countries, a unilateral Is-
raeli freeze on West Bank
settlements, and his curious
contention that the now de-
funct Reagan Plan was
based on the Camp David
process.
The latest statement we
have from Glenn is a fine
general statement of sup-
port for Israel and a proper
criticism of the Reagan
Administration for neglect-
ing Israel as an ally. But
there are still a large
number of key unanswered
questions, and a spotty re-
cord in the past which
leaves doubts.
Mondale is due to re-
lease his own statement
to the same publication,
and undoubtedly both
will be compared.
It is interesting to note
that with the recent atten-
tion being given to the im-
portance of black and His-
panic voters in the upcom-
ing Presidential election,
Jewish voters, who vote dis-
proportionately higher than
any other group, still are a
key element in any electoral
college strategy.
In such states as New
York, California, Illinois,
Maryland, New Jersey,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Florida, a marked shift in
the percentage of Jewish
votes has a significant im-
pact on the total votes of
these crucial states.
For instance, a shift of
Jewish votes in New Jersey
from 60 percent to 40 per-
cent Democrat over Repub-
lican, to 50-50 would shift
the state's entire vote al-
most 21/2 percent — a sig-
nificant number. In this re-
gard, it is interesting to cite
the approximate split of the
Jewish vote in Presidential
elections since 1956:
1956 Stevenson (D)
Eisenhower (R)
60
40
1960 Kennedy (D)
Nixon (R)
82
18
1964 Johnson (D)
Goldwater (R)
90
10
1968 Humphrey (D)
Nixon (R)
Wallace (AIP)
81
17
2
1972 McGovern (D)
Nixon (R)
65
35
1976 Carter (D)
Ford (R)
75
25
1980 Reagan (R)
Carter (D)
Anderson (I)
45
45
10
we hope this positive trend
continues. We also hope
that these improvements
are in recognition of the best
interests of the United
States, namely, that a
strong and secure Israel is
our most reliable ally in a
volatile Middle East, rather
than as an opportunistic
consideration of domestic
political gain.
These figures make it
clear why a 1984 Reagan
candidacy cannot afford to
alienate Jewish voters as
Carter did in 1980. This
realization might help ex-
plain the improvement in
U.S.-Israel relations in re-
cent weeks. But these im-
provements — approval of
licenses for the Israeli Lavi
fighter and an end on the
ban of F-16 deliveries —
look reasonable only be-
cause Administration pol-
icy has been so one-sided
against Israel for so long.
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