Just from eyeballing it, I can’t say that Obama’s support among Jews was any lower in 2012 than in 2008.
The Jewish vote for Obama was lower than in 2008. I’ve heard it was 68 percent, about six percent lower than in 2008. That said, it was not low enough. Still, it is heading in the right direction, and it was a rare area where the Republicans picked up some votes they had missed in 2008 while depriving Obama of those same votes.
This election proves that, in general terms, Israel is not a major consideration for US Jewish voters. In contrast, Jewish American ex-patriates living in Israel overwhelmingly voted for Romney.
But forget the Jewish vote. The big problem for Romney was the Latino vote, which accounted for some 13 million votes overall. Between 75 percent-79 percent of Latinos voted for Obama; 21 percent-25 percent for Mitt Romney.
In contrast, only about 2.5 million Jews total voted in the election.
According to what I read Jewish support for the democratic candidate was the lowest since Reagan ran against Carter. That’s not saying much it was still over 60%. You would think that the Jews would remember what happened to them when they failed to realize the threat Hitler was. Obama is no friend of Jews nor Israel.
It was down 9%, from 78% to 69%.
A fair start.