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DanielX
Junior Chimp
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« on: July 08, 2007, 07:00:14 PM »
Could Jews get elected? Of course. There's a small but real chance our next President (or the one after that) could be a Mormon, and Mormons are viewed in a *far* more negative light than Jews by most Americans.

We nearly had a Jewish vice president. There are like a dozen or so Jews in the Senate. Quite a few Cabinet members and Supreme Court justices have been Jewish. It isn't exactly like Jews have never been involved in the political process.
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DanielX
Junior Chimp
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E: 2.45, S: -4.70
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2007, 02:03:39 AM »

Joe Lieberman, an orthodox Jew, came within a hair's breadth of the Vice Presidency in 2000....
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