On May 17 and 18 the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Truth Project asked 36,139 Arab Americans and “allied voters,” “Who are you voting for in November?” 2,196 people responded.

2% Trump

7% Biden

25% Jill Stein

20% Cornell West

19% Undecided

23% Uncommitted

3% Stay home

  • bobburger@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    A little context:

    According the Arab American Institute less than 1% of American citizens are Arab American.

    Arab Americans do make up significant voting blocks in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Even though they are an extremely small minority, they may have to power to cost Joe Biden these key swing states and hand the election to Donald Trump.

    Most older Americans support Biden’s response to Israel according to this poll. On the other hand younger Americans largely disapprove of his response. There’s a lot more nuance than given in my brief summary, this is just to illustrate the diversity of opinion among voters.

    Joe Biden needs to balance rejecting young Americans who are unreliable voters and Arab Americans who are a very small minority with rejecting older Americans who are a large reliable voting block. Again there’s a lot more nuance here that I’m not going to go into, I’m merely pointing out that no matter what choice Joe Biden makes it’s going to alienate some voters and could potentially hand the election to Trump.