[dervish]

“Take a four-square-block slice of Gravesend, Brooklyn, a warren of high-priced residences dotted with Sephardic temples and yeshivas that happens to be the deepest single bloc of Republican support in all five boroughs. “

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/nyregion/in-manhattan-largely-blue-one-bright-spot-and-a-tie-for-romney.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

Interesting that the strongest Romney vote was from the Sephardic Community - the one with roots in Muslim lands.

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[JoyjoyfromNJ]

“Interesting that the strongest Romney vote was from the Sephardic Community - the one with roots in Muslim lands.”

Hmm, maybe because that community has had disasterous first hand experience with the treatment of non-Jews in Muslim lands. Maybe because many of their families were forced into exile from those lands when Israel became a nation in 1948.