Art Leaders Gallery 'World Proudly Presents HENRY ASENCIO ONE MAN SHOW 60 Percent? Poll suggests Obama is stuck in race for Jewish vote. Meet the artist Please join us for a one - man show and reception with Wine & Hors d'oeuvers Saturday October 18th 6-9 Sunday October 19th 1 -5 Please RSVP Fine Art Exhibition & Sale Featuring a large selection of Original Paintings created exclusively for this event & Hand-Enhanced Limited Editions on Canvas 33030 Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington Northwestern Hwy (14 Mile Rd), West Bloomfield 248-539-0262 Hours Monday — Saturday 10 7 - www.artleaders.com Exhibition continues through November 30th, 2008 You can still lease the Best Mini-Van in the business Richard Kirsch • 36 months • 12,000 miles a year • $229 per month with $2999 due at signing. (with approved credit) T , Honda Bloomfield 1819 S. Telegraph MC)1V 11:1"' north of Square Lake Rd. • Bloomfield • 248-333-3200 SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY, Shop with our advertisers! A32 Barack Obama at a campaign appearance in North Carolina last month. October 9 . 2008 B arack Obama has hit a wall of Jewish indecision. The American Jewish Committee survey published two weeks ago shows the Democratic presidential nomi- nee still hovering around 60 percent among Jewish voters. His big problem: the undecideds. The U.S. senator from Illinois scored 57 percent, compared to 30 percent of respondents who said they would vote for his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. That's consistent with two other major polls taken since May. If Obama's figure holds, he would finish about 15 points behind the 75 percent of the Jewish vote that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., won in 2004. "He seems to have reached a plateau:' said David Singer, the AJC's research director. He noted that Jews among the party faithful are strongly supportive of their respective candidates, with 81 percent of Jewish Democrats backing Obama and 84 percent of Jewish Republicans backing McCain. "In the past, Jewish independents usually in their voting behavior tended to go Democratic" by this point in the campaign, Singer said. "It's this group that seems to be hesitating." The AJC survey found an even split among Jewish independents for McCain and Obama — with 20 per- cent still undecided. Part of the explanation is McCain's popularity among Jews relative to President Bush, who garnered only 24 percent of the Jewish vote in 2004 even after four years of what was widely seen as consistently strong support for Israel. Iv1cCain's appeal combines simi- lar support for Israel with a reputation as a moderate — one that Jewish Democrats say is no longer deserved after McCain picked a staunch reli- gious conservative, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as his running mate. A similar poll conducted by the AJC four years ago, in September 2004, showed Kerry at 69 percent and Bush at 24 percent. Kerry ultimately per- suaded the undecideds to vote for him six weeks later. Whether Obama can do the same in the time remaning before the elec- tion with twice as many undecideds up for grabs is a worrying question for Democrats. They say that a Republican campaign depicting Obama as overly sympathetic to Palestinians and as insufficiently confrontational with Iran, as well as an Internet-based campaign falsely depicting Obama