ultimately won a county clerk seat. later she won that ill-fated seat in congress. w since she became lieutenant governor during cuomo s second term she s famously driven to or every county in the state every year she has been in office. she s originally from a traditionally more conservative part of upstate new york. in the past she described herself as an independent democrat.t she was once opposed progressive priorities like issuing driver s licenses to undocumented immigrants. at one point she got an endorsement from the nra. but she has moved to the left o at least to the center since then.ha she s renounced her old stance on the driver s licenses. she s adopted a more traditionally progressive slate of policies. she s considered to be essentially pragmatic and to have followed the same sort of path that a lot of upstate new york relatively conservative a democrats have followed when they ve moved into state wide or, indeed, national office. essentially lining themselves up more w
israel when american jews go to the polls, or am i wrong? look, since the 1930s, since the onset of the new deal,l, jes have tended to vote democrat, overwhelmingly so. prior to that, they voted overwhelmingly republican. the social justice impulse of jews caused them, the onset of the new deal, to begin to vote democrat.t now, they were comfortable doing that because for most of thela last 80 years, democratic nominees for president, with the exception, perhaps, of george mcgovern, were reliably pro israel. the democratic party was a party of scoop jackson and john f. kennedy and hubert humphrey, great supporters of the state of israel. but that changed under president obama. though, it hasn t shaken the conviction bill: no, it was interesting, because netanyahu made it clear that he thought president obama was not an enemy but not a friend of israel. he made it very clear.