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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Top Jewish fundraisers sticking with Obama for 2012

Published 10:49 21.12.11 Latest update 10:49 21.12.11


Top-level Jewish fundraisers from President Obama’s 2008 campaign are sticking with the president in 2012.

Despite reports that President Obama faces a loss of Jewish funders due to his Middle East policy, analysis of a list of elite bundlers from his 2008 race shows no defections among the president’s top Jewish supporters in 2012. 

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama
Photo by: Getty / courtesy of The Forward

In 2008, Obama’s elite “bundlers” — fund raisers who collected more than $500,000 each for the president’s campaign — included many prominent Jews. Aside from those who hold government jobs that bar them from political fundraising, all of them have returned on the 2012 campaign’s list of volunteer bundlers, or are confirmed to be fundraising for the campaign. And a handful of new prominent Jewish bundlers has joined the elite group this year for the first time.

The Forward’s findings don’t speak to support for Obama among Jewish voters, or to how the president will fare among rank-and-file Jewish donors who gave or collected lesser sums.

Indeed, some of those elite donors report that support for Obama may be thinner further down the ladder.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/u-s-elections-2012/top-jewish-fundraisers-sticking-with-obama-for-2012-1.402728

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