Poll: Only 43 Percent of Jews Would Reelect Obama
Secure America Now has just released a new poll showing that only 43 percent of Jews plan to vote to reelect Obama in 2012. If this holds, it would be a considerable drop from the 78 percent of the Jewish vote Obama received in 2008, and from the standard 75–80 percent of the Jewish vote that Democratic political strategists have come to expect and rely upon.
The bipartisan poll, done by John McLaughlin and Pat Caddell, also found that Obama is likely to have particular trouble with Jews in the all-important state of Florida, as only 34 percent of Florida’s Jews would vote to reelect him. Unsurprisingly, Obama does better among Jews in blue states like California, Illinois, and Maryland, but Republican strategists are unlikely to contest those states heavily, whereas the Florida vote really matters.
In addition, in a positive sign for the future, Obama’s worst showing in the poll was among Jews under 40. Sixty-one percent of these younger Jews reported that they planned to vote for someone other than Obama for president in 2012. This could indicate that the strange and continuing hold that the Democratic party has had over American Jews could finally be loosening. This latest poll is bad news for Obama in the short term, and problematic for the Democrats in the long term as well.
larry
only 43% thats bad enought
declasse intellectual
From day one Obama has demonstrated that his polcies were against Israel and the jews. No one should vote for him. He is as big Anti-Semite as was FDR was.
me
Y is he wearing a kippa?
Fed Up Taxpayer
Why do you morons hate him so much? Because he knows the people of Palestine deserve to be treated with dignity? Because he knows of the crimes of ’48? The ethnic cleansing? That the IDF murders little girls with U.S. funded weapons? Grow up. He should cut off all aid to this criminal regime. Go it alone, we don’t need allies like this group of thugs. Maybe taxpayers should look into who really made out like a bandit after 9/11 – where the billions went. Maybe that’s what you morons are afraid of. The Truth.
Disappointed
As detailed on the NR comments page, according to the poll only 43% of Jews are CERTAIN they will vote for Obama. The other 57% have ruled it out or are CONSIDERING voting for Obama. That’s the key distinction the author of the post ignores.
The poll itself has some problems with the demographics but the author’s summary of it is highly, and intentionally, misleading. Please pay more attention to the sources and content you are reposting.