We’ve briefed this Quinnipiac poll, showing that a plurality of American voters overall disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian "situation." (I’ll link the brief when it’s up.)
A lot of other folks will probably comment on the "Jewish" results. I’m ignoring them because the sample is way too small to be reliable.
More reliable, I think are the interesting party breakdowns: Republicans were much likelier to disapprove of Obama’s handling of the relationship, Democrats much likelier to approve.
Voters from both parties are likelier to sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians — but the numbers are much stronger in the GOP, 70 percent, as opposed to the Democrats’ 46 percent.
There was a gap, too, in the percentages in each party who believed the president should be a strong supporter of Israel, although it was narrower; 76 percent of Republicans said yes, as opposed to 61 percent Democrats.
UPDATE: I should say, I don’t know what the Jewish sample size is, but it can’t be more than 80 — and that’s accounting for the optimistic assumption that Jews, at around 2 percent of the population, are twice as likely to be self-identified voters. That’s just too small to draw conclusions.
Further UPDATE: I’m told the sample size is 128. Trying to find out more, but it’s still too small, according to my training. But I’ll be asking more questions about the sample.
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