With a little work he may break out of the single digits with Muslim-American voters, the paper warned
CAIRO, August 23 (IslamOnline.net) – As opinion polls said Muslims
are to vote him down, USPresident George W. Bush needs votes of the community to secure
a re-election, American press reports said.
Christian Science Monitor was one of the newspapers underling the growing influence of
Muslims in the November presidential elections.
With five million Muslims living
concentrated in areas across the country, you end up with something that
might look like a bloc and vote like a bloc, the paper said.
Polls in 2000 showed Muslims favored
Bush over Al Gore by a wide margin - some showed support in the 90
percent range - and some groups argued that some 60,000 Muslim votes put
Bush over the top in Florida.
It's amazing how much can change in
four years - years that have included Sept. 11, John Ashcroft, and the
Patriot Act. The latest poll by the Council on American-Islamic
Relations shows John Kerry with 54 percent of the Muslim vote in the
2004 race.
The
incumbent president? With a little work he may break out of the single
digits with Muslim-American voters, the paper warned.
