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Are Democrats Losing the Jews?
The Atlantic ^ | November 13, 2014 | Emma Green

Posted on 11/13/2014 12:24:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

In this year's midterms, Jews voted for Republican candidates more than they have in any election in the last decade.

First, some raw facts. In the 2006 midterm elections, 87 percent of Jews voted for Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives. Last week, in the 2014 midterm elections, 66 percent cast ballots for Democrats. That's a 21-point drop in eight years—and, it might seem, a major cause for celebration among the likes of the Republican Jewish Coalition and philo-Semitic political strategists everywhere.

But while Jewish support for Democrats has definitely declined over the last decade, the context is important. Poll numbers show how people are voting, but it's more difficult to figure out what they mean for the role of Jews in American politics.

And for such a small group, that's a big question.

Here are some of the other constituencies that make up 2 percent of the American electorate: customer-service representatives. People who participate in archery and bowhunting. AOL users. Residents of Indiana. So why all the attention?

"The importance of the Jews isn't their votes," said Benjamin Ginsberg, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. "They account for a huge share of the activist base of the Democratic Party and account for much of the money available to Democratic candidates. If you are a Republican strategist, it seems fairly obviously that if you can shift Jewish support even a little bit away from the Democrats, it makes the Democratic Party less competitive."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: democrats; gop; jews; judaism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Time will tell if the Dems have lost significant Jewish support. Meanwhile, let’s not count our Latkes before they’re fried.


21 posted on 11/13/2014 12:55:53 PM PST by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where’s the picture of Hillary kissing Sucha Ararat?


22 posted on 11/13/2014 12:57:36 PM PST by Obadiah (I'm supporting Martha Coakley for the Democratic nomination in 2016.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Hitler was a socialist. Nazi is short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (The National Socialist German Workers’ Party) and the red in the flag was adopted to make it easier for communists and socialists to switch to the Nazi Party.


23 posted on 11/13/2014 12:59:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

And the democrats will be the ones who support such action.

It’s like the inmates of Auschwitz voting for their SS guards.


24 posted on 11/13/2014 1:00:49 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

The left wing, including its Jews, hate Israel. I think the leftwing Jews would be OK with Israel if only they didn’t have Netanyahu. Yeah, they’re that nuts.


25 posted on 11/13/2014 1:04:10 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That’s probably the only time that person wore a yarmulke


26 posted on 11/13/2014 1:10:21 PM PST by ari-freedom (Obama is the biggest joke. But I can't laugh.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

IIRC, Hitler was a social democrat. Think I used Socialist incorrectly. I believe the word I was looking for was Marxist.


27 posted on 11/13/2014 1:12:12 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
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To: EDINVA

“The left wing, including its Jews, hate Israel. I think the leftwing Jews would be OK with Israel if only they didn’t have Netanyahu. Yeah, they’re that nuts.”

No, unless Netanyahu was replaced with Abbas or Haniyeh.


28 posted on 11/13/2014 1:14:11 PM PST by ari-freedom (Obama is the biggest joke. But I can't laugh.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are Democrats losing the Jews? Vy not?


29 posted on 11/13/2014 1:17:10 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The American Jews need to grow up and start voting like they want USA to survive ( and as a land of liberty, not an islamoNazi police state). They can vote for either major party in most years - that’s just fine. — but they definitely should not support the D party now that, while the nazis have seized control of it.


30 posted on 11/13/2014 1:21:43 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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American Jews typify the notion, ‘voting against your own self interest’. Most of the Jews that I know and like are Israelis.


31 posted on 11/13/2014 1:56:18 PM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

American Jews are liberal first, Jewish later.


32 posted on 11/13/2014 1:57:50 PM PST by Fledermaus (REPEAL OBAMACARE!! Hold the feet of the GOPe to the fire!)
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To: faithhopecharity

The demonicrat party has been marxist to its rotten core since at least the 1950s. No sane person should support it; it is flat out evil.

I think the vast majority of Americans, regardless of religious or ethnic background, don’t want to admit that.


33 posted on 11/13/2014 2:01:09 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

THE HOLOCAUST AND FDR’S ANTI-SEMITISM AND ANTI-CATHOLICISM

Robert Michael

The records of the Casablanca Conference contain the clearest and most significant evidence concerning the President attitudes toward the Jews and the basic reason why he did nothing to end the anti-refugee policy of the United States.

The conference took place in January 1, 1943 in the middle of the period when the mass murder of Jews was taking place in Europe. By this time, Roosevelt knew nearly everything about these atrocities. Roosevelt had been informed over the years by American diplomats and American press reports about the Jewish condition in Europe.1 Moreover, in December 1942 the Polish government in exile had accurately informed the U.S. government of many of the facts of the Holocaust.

Yet at Casablanca, Roosevelt amazingly seemed to sympathize with Nazi discrimination against Jews. He proposed to Generals Noguès and Giraud that the French government in North Africa discriminate against the Jews of French North Africa just as Hitler had done in Germany before the war .2) Roosevelt stated that the number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions . . . should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole North African population. He endorsed the same plan for Germany.

Limiting the number of Jews in the professions, he stated, would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore toward the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a single part of the population, over 50 per cent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc., in Germany were Jews. 3)

Roosevelt’s misinformation and solutions were shared by American Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, who had written to Charles Crane that he, Dodd, had told the Germans unofficially that they had a serious [Jewish] problem but that they did not know how to solve it. The Jews had held a great many more of the key positions in Germany than their numbers or their talents entitled them to. 4)

The errors in Roosevelt statements were telling, because they mirrored modern antisemitic stereotypes. In the interwar period, the facts are that Jews comprised about 16 percent of German lawyers, 11 percent of physicians, 4 percent of the university teachers, and 1 percent of teachers in lower grades. 5 )

At Casablanca, F.D.R.’s comments echoed Nazi and American anti-Jewish propaganda of the 1930s. Father Coughlin praised the National-Socialists¸ understandable effort to block the Jewish-Communist plan for subjugating Germany.6 Congressman Louis McFadden had encouraged Hitler¸s attempts to destroy the alleged Jewish control of the German economy, media, education, and professions.7)

For President Roosevelt, America was a “Protestant” nation,8) and Jews were here on suffrance. F.D.R.s feelings about Jews are clear’. One day in January 1942, Roosevelt proclaimed to a shocked Crowley: Leo, you know this is a Protestant country, and the Catholics and the Jews are here on sufferance. It is up to both of you [Crowley and Henry Morganthau, a Jew and Secretary of the Treasury] to go along with anything that I want at this time. 9)

The rest of the history

http://akimel.net/fdr.html


34 posted on 11/13/2014 2:05:52 PM PST by Dqban22
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tradition


35 posted on 11/13/2014 2:06:20 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
" . . . and philo-Semitic political strategists everywhere."

What is a philo-Semite? I don't think I've ever seen that in print before and I've got over 70 orbits around the sun under my belt.

36 posted on 11/13/2014 2:07:16 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kaslin; gov_bean_ counter; GOPsterinMA; AJFavish; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; ...
Why does the party of the KKK, Know-Nothings, Woodrow Wilson, Knights of the Golden Circle, Bull Connor, anti-Isreali anti-Semitism, George Wallace, Jim Crow and Jewish lynchings "have" the Jews in the first place?

Please, regardless of whatever else you may say about him, George Wallace was NOT anti-Jewish at all. From what I've heard from a Jewish guy who lived in Montgomery at the time Wallace was governor, Wallace had friendly relations with the Jewish community there, and reputedly even had some Jewish relatives via intermarriage. To the best of my knowledge (in contrast to other prominent Democrats like FDR and Truman whom the posted article conveniently ignores), no anti-Semitic statements, writings, or actions were ever attributed to him.

37 posted on 11/13/2014 2:08:29 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Jews love their liberal ideology more than they do this country. Hell, they don’t even care about their kinsmen in Israel!


38 posted on 11/13/2014 2:09:50 PM PST by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Jews love their liberal ideology more than they do this country. Hell, they don’t even care about their kinsmen in Israel!


39 posted on 11/13/2014 2:10:07 PM PST by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: justiceseeker93

I sincerely hope so.


40 posted on 11/13/2014 2:21:23 PM PST by SailormanCGA72
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