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Electoral power continues to shift to the South and the West — away from the tradi- tional strongholds of the Jewish community. "In 1976, the Jewish com- munity could say it helped elect a president," says Marc Pearl, executive director of the Americans for Democratic Action and former Washington represen- tative for the American Jewish Congress. "I doubt if that's ever going to happen again. By 1992, the equivalent of the entire state of Michigan will have moved South and Southwest, in terms of electoral votes. Half a dozen congressional seats will be lost in the big in- dustrial states. From a political perspective, there is a clear diminution of power?' The plain fact is that the Jewish vote played a relative- ly insignificant role in the election of 1988, despite many predictions to the contrary. This is the kind of lesson that few national politicians are likely to ignore. 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"You can't laugh these groups off any more," said Hyman Bookbinder, longtime Washington representative for the American Jewish Committee. 'They have been very good at learning the lessons of our own ex- periences in the political area. They are becoming much more of a force on the national scene." Today, groups like the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee and the National Association of Arab Americans are show- ing a new expertise in public relations, and a new apprecia- tion of the intricacies of power politics, Washington style. In the recent presidential campaigns, Arab Americans became a key part of the coali- tion that helped propel Jesse A Hyman Bookbinder: Minorities are more sophisticated. Jackson to the forefront of the Democratic Party. At the same time, they began to develop strong ties to the Republican hierarchy, using the "cover-all-bases" strategy basic to pro-Israel political ac- tion groups. In the past year, Arab- American groups have become adept at finding and exploiting opportunities to score points for their- cause. They have mounted a concen- trated attack on the pro-Israel lobby, especially the American Israel Public Af- fairs Committee (AIPAC); unlike earlier attacks, which emphasized crude rhetoric unlikely to appeal to American decision makers, these latest thrusts have showed a growing understan- ding of the vulnerabilities of the pro-Israel community. "If you're looking for ex- amples of the growing sophistication of these groups, you only need to look at the decision to include Israel in the U.S. Trade Represen- tative's investigation of labor abuses in a number of coun- tries;' said one official with a major Jewish organization here. "The USTR decision to in- clude Israel was the result of a petition from Arab groups; the point is, they understood the complexities of the system well enough to find an obscure area where Israel might be vulnerable, and to pursue it in a way that would embarrass Israel no matter what the outcome of the in- vestigation. This should be a warning to all of us; these groups are not in the minor leagues any more." Even more significant is the fact that groups like the Arab-American Institute, under the direction of the astute Jim Zogby, are devoting a good proportion of their resources to local issues, Continued on Page 22