It’s an interesting question to ask if the President’s support for Isreal risks him having persons of the Islamic faith sitting out this election. Minorities, once the base of the Democratic Party have increasingly, in small numbers, voted Republican in part due to cultural issues like abortion but also because a small but growing number of minorities, especially immigrants are business owners and the Democrats are often seen as hostile to business owners, especially when tax season comes. Or when they find more government regulations getting in the way of the way they’ve always operated their business in the past.