{"id":3023,"date":"2008-03-25T14:41:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T20:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2008-03-25T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T20:41:47","slug":"dozens-of-jewish-super-delegates-may-hold-key-to-democratic-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3023","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Jewish Super-Delegates May Hold Key to Democratic Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><em>Campaign Marks a Communal Coming of Age in Party Politics<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jennifer Siegel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/12998\/\"> Thu. Mar 20, 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a new survey conducted by the Forward, a disproportionately large share of the Democratic party\u2019s super-delegates are Jewish. Many of them have declared their support for Hillary Clinton, accounting for more than 15% of her current backers.<\/p>\n<p>Like the general population of super-delegates, whose support remains fluid, several Jewish supporters of the New York senator said in interviews that their votes still remain up for grabs. All told, more than 70 Jewish super-delegates will make the trip to Denver this summer for the Democrats\u2019 nominating convention. They account for nearly one-tenth of the party\u2019s nearly 800 so-called super-delegates, the informal term for elected and party officials whose status as delegates to the convention does not depend on state primaries and caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>If the Democratic presidential primary comes down to a photo finish, these Jewish insiders could play an outsized role in anointing a nominee at the party\u2019s August convention. And it would be a history-making experience: Although Jews have long been considered a formidable voting bloc and have been overrepresented among the country\u2019s cadre of liberal activists and thinkers, they have only more recently become common as Democratic establishment insiders, with unprecedented numbers of both Jewish elected officials and party leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/12998\/\">Read the report<\/a>] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign Marks a Communal Coming of Age in Party Politics By Jennifer Siegel Thu. Mar 20, 2008 According to a new survey conducted by the Forward, a disproportionately large share of the Democratic party\u2019s super-delegates are Jewish. Many of them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ML","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}