dollars buy votes

[frank scott]

"The argument that US politicians have to do the bidding of right-wing
Zionists in order to court the Jewish vote and get elected is also
unconvincing and is basically mistaking effect for cause.  You can
answer that
one on a lot of different levels, for example that the Black vote is ten
times
the Jewish vote but it never led the US to invade South Africa."

the jewish vote is very important in some places, but - for instance -
it didn't amount to much in the two congressional districts in the south
where black candidates were defeated by less-critical-of-israel blacks,
whose campaigns were financially helped by the lobby...

it isn't votes alone, but the money with which to purchase them that
loom larger...money is why american blacks , though greater in numbers
than american jews, have much less power in congress... and most other
institutions.

fs