“My friends in the Republican Jewish Coalition are ecstatic at the crossover they’re having from independent-minded Jews,” GOP consultant Karl Rove told The Daily Caller.

“Most Jews are Democrats because they vote on the basis of domestic policies,” said Ari Fleischer, a former press secretary for George W. Bush. But, he added, “those who are more inclined to vote on international affairs are more likely to be independent and they tend to vote Republican,” he said. They’re also the people who are more likely to be alarmed by Obama’s new stance, he said. “That’s where the damage was done,” he said…

Republican activists are also hopeful that the Jewish community will also increase its donations to GOP candidates, because many entrepreneurs in the Jewish community also dislike the president’s pro-regulatory policies. Those policies included the now-derailed “card-check” bill in 2008 that would have allowed government-appointed arbitrators to decide wage disputes between unions and employers.