"Despite these polls and the passions raised by the war with Hamas, it is easy to exaggerate the power of Gaza as a motivating issue for voters eight months from no-win November. History suggests that foreign policy issues end up as a minor motif in presidential politics unless American soldiers are dying in combat as they were in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2004.”

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    8 months ago

    Yeah, the average American doesn’t care enough about the Israel/Gaza genocide. Like if it was between Biden and a moderate or more progressive candidate that didn’t support Israel’s genocide then maybe. But even then you run up against the generations of Pro-Israel bias that has been fostered in America a lot of people aren’t even aware of. It just won’t matter on election day. Americans will care a lot more about issues that affect them like abortion.