{"id":6478,"date":"2008-10-17T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2008-10-17T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T22:37:23","slug":"36-key-jews-in-the-2008-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6478","title":{"rendered":"36 Key Jews In The 2008 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Haaretz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Eli Pariser: He heads MoveOn.org, a liberal on-line advocacy group that has raised large sums for Democratic candidates. <\/p>\n

Martin Peretz: The editor of The New Republic, he wrote an influential article entitled "Can friends of Israel – and Jews – trust Obama? In a word, Yes." <\/p>\n

Dennis Prager: He is an influential, outspoken and often strident nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. Despite reservations over McCain’s campaign reform bill, he has thrown his weight behind the GOP ticket. <\/p>\n

Penny Pritzker: She is the national finance chair of the Obama campaign. A billionaire executive, pioneer Obama supporter and scion of a well-known Jewish mega-donor family, she has taken flak over the degree of her involvement in a the failure of a bank driven by sub-prime mortgages. <\/p>\n

Ed Rendell: The governor of the key swing state of Pennsylvania, he is former head of the Democratic National Committee and a top Democratic campaign spokesman. <\/p>\n

Denise Rich: The socialite and ex-wife of disgraced billionaire Marc Rich is a Democratic megafundraiser. <\/p>\n

Dennis Ross and Dan Kurtzer: They are the center-right and center-left anchors of Obama’s Middle East advisory staff. <\/p>\n

Robert Rubin: The top Obama economics advisor has unsurpassed knowledge of the workings of Wall Street and was treasury secretary in the Clinton administration. <\/p>\n

Dan Shapiro: A former Clinton administration National Security Council official, he is a senior Mideast policy advisor and Jewish outreach coordinator for the Obama campaign. He is said to have co-written Obama’s speech before AIPAC (the pro-Israel lobby), in which the candidate declared "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided" – a statement Obama later partially recanted. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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