Juan Cole wonders. His thinking is that Muslim Americans are an important voting bloc in the Midwest, including several important swing states. Adding to Muslim (and Christian Arab?) voters’ dismay at the defilement of the holy city are the domestic trampling on civil rights of Arab Americans, the poor economy and the ripple effect of rising oil prices because of the continuing Iraqi unrest. Much of the Arab American support Bush got on 2000, Cole says, was based on fears that a Gore-Lieberman administration would be heavily pro-Israel.