Israel is not an American state and it doesn’t have any electoral votes to boast of. But with the 2012 presidential race looking like a cliffhanger, President Bush’s former press secretary and the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition traveled toIsraelto make voter registration in the Jewish state a priority cause.
With the latest 2012 presidential polls showing a tightening race between incumbent president Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney it is becoming more evident by the day that every vote will count — especially the Jewish vote.
According to the Ettinger Report published by Yoram Ettinger a former Israeli ambassador to theUS Bush’s razor-thin victory in 2000 was determined by less than 1 000 Jewish voters inFlorida. The outcome of the 2012 presidential election could be resolved by the Jewish vote in three of the top seven electoral states Florida Pennsylvania andOhio. WhenUScitizens cast absentee ballots fromIsrael or any other country outside of theUS the votes are tallied along with the totals of the last state in which they resided.
With Jewish dissatisfaction with President Obama running at stubbornly high levels President Bush’s former press secretary Ari Fleischer along with Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) executive director Matt Brooks traveled toIsraelto launch the RJC’s inaugural voter registration drive absentee ballot program and advocacy initiative.
The Republican Jewish Coalition is a Washington-based grassroots organization with 38000 members in 46 chapters across theUnited States. Fleischer and Brooks joined forces with a voter registration group called iVoteIsrael as well as AgudathIsraelofAmerica.
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