THIS one is suprising me. The poll shows the orthodox Jewish Weprin losing to Roman Catholic Turner by a LANDSLIDE among "Jewish voters" (not even Othodox Jews, but Jews in general!) Even if ALL the "undecided" went to Weprin, this poll shows Turner beating Weprin by a 2-to-1 margin in the Jewish community. Even better, Hoepper really appears to be sucking a great deal of hardcore liberal Dem votes from Weprin. I doubt this poll is accurate, but if it remotely true it looks like a massacre.
>> Religion: 36% Jewish; 31% Catholic; 10% Other Christian; 9% Another religion; 8% None. <<
Here's the data I was finally looking for on the religious demographics of the district. Of course, it's only basing the numbers around which people responded to the survey, and it's not breaking down Jews by denomination. But these numbers suggest Jews outnumber Catholics in the district. If you combine all Christians, then they're the biggest plurality by a slim 41% Christian, 36% Jewish margin - but they still outnumber the largest Christian denomination (Catholics). If we presume about 40% of the Jews are Orthodox Jews, then we're looking at 15%-16% of the voting population being Orthodox Jews? Interesting. I wonder what the numbers are for Turner/Weprin/Hoeppner are pulling among Catholic voters?
This is an amazing poll. If it holds on election day, than 2012 looks very promising to us.
Apparently Jewish voters do care about Israel.
In Canada they voted Conservative in the last election in large part for that reason.