# Jewish Power and Pat Buchanan's statements on the The McLaughlin Group

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-power-and-pat-buchanans-statements-on-the-the-mclaughlin-group/390799>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 4, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-power-and-pat-buchanans-statements-on-the-the-mclaughlin-group/390799 "2007-02-04T17:45:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-power-and-pat-buchanans-statements-on-the-the-mclaughlin-group/390799/1 "2007-02-04T17:45:53Z")

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I’m grazing the Sunday talk show channels and The McLaughlin Group show has McLaughlin asking who has power in the new Congress. Pat Buchanan poo-poos the Democrats relative power as Bush will veto any proposals he doesn’t like. Then he reaches down inot his bag of statistics and opines …

"Now you want to talk about real power…you have 13% of the Senate are Jewish coming from 2% of the population … Now _that’s_ power.

Is this statistic true?

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**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-power-and-pat-buchanans-statements-on-the-the-mclaughlin-group/390799/2 "2007-02-04T17:53:15Z")

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Who cares.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-power-and-pat-buchanans-statements-on-the-the-mclaughlin-group/390799/3 "2007-02-04T18:31:01Z")

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Sorry for the out of forum GQ post. I’ll have a mod close it.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-power-and-pat-buchanans-statements-on-the-the-mclaughlin-group/390799/4 "2007-02-04T18:36:38Z")

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Check it out [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=406983)