Lieberman's Candidacy Receives Much Discussion

August 8, 2000

Source: Los Angeles Times

On August 8, 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that "murky, and inherently unanswerable, question of whether Lieberman's religion will repel some voters. Most experts expect little effect, and two recent polls have found that fully 9 in 10 Americans now say they would vote for a Jewish president. But analysts acknowledge that voters resistant to a Jewish president could be reluctant to admit those attitudes to a pollster, which means that no one can safely say how large a potential backlash, if any, may come. 'I think we do not know how much hidden hesitancy or worse is out there at the thought of the potential of a Jewish president,' says Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative author who has written extensively on Jewish assimilation in America."