<div class='node-body'><p>With hefty backing from billionaire casino owner <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&amp;disp=D&amp;type=V">Sheldon Adelson</a> &ndash; the 800-lb gorilla of this year&#39;s GOP megadonors -- the conservative <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=Republican+Jewish+Coalition">Republican Jewish Coalition</a> is spending millions of dollars in four crucial states to cut into the Jewish vote that President <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/candidate.php?id=N00009638">Barack Obama</a> won lopsidedly in 2008.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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