This, from recent ADL polling, is pretty interesting: A marked increase in the degree to which Americans approve of pro-Israel lobbying from 1991 to 2007. The percentage of folks who think that pro-Israel lobbies have just the right amount of influence increased from 45% to 55%, while the percentage of folks who think they have too much influence dropped precipitously, from 37% to 16% of the population ("too little" stayed mostly constant, dipping from 9% to 7%).
Matt Yglesias attributes this to the rise of the Christian Zionist movement. Maybe? I'd be interested to see some empirical verification of what accounts for the shift.
I'd be more inclined to attribute it to the sense that Israel's war on terror is our war on terror, sense of a common enemy, etc. (Obviously, this is just a guess.)
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