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The GOP’s Jewish Donors Are Abandoning Trump
FiveThirtyEight ^ | 9/21/16 | Titan Hersh Brian Schaffner

Posted on 09/21/2016 10:12:35 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

In recent years, Republicans have made inroads into the overwhelmingly Democratic constituency of American Jews. But this year, Republican Jews — or Jewish donors to the Republican party, at least — are abandoning their party’s nominee at a stunningly high rate.

In 2012, 71 percent of the $160 million that Jewish donors gave to the two major-party nominees went to President Obama’s re-election campaign; 29 percent went to Mitt Romney’s campaign, according to our analysis of campaign contributors, which used a predictive model to estimate which donors are Jewish based on their names and other characteristics. This ratio of support mirrors how Jewish voters cast their ballots in 2012.

So far in 2016, of all the money given to major-party candidates by donors who appear to be Jewish, 95 percent has gone to Hillary Clinton and just 5 percent has gone to Donald Trump.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; altright; antitrump; bigotry; clinton; donors; elections; jewishdonors; jewishvote; jews; republicans; trump
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To: Timpanagos1

Smells like propaganda.

I have several Jewish friends, and they have many other Jewish friends whom I have met but don’t know well. Many of them are very wealthy and politically active. They all despise ILLary and actively support Trump.

But I’m in Texas, so maybe my experience is not the norm.


41 posted on 09/22/2016 12:37:37 AM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Yaelle

Trump has gone way out on a limb for us, saying he will send the “refugees” back home. Who will the terrorists among them attack, if given a preference? Christians and Jews.

Doesn’t make sense to me that Jews are not rushing to his corner.


42 posted on 09/22/2016 12:40:38 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Timpanagos1

the Liberal Jews will be judged and condemned for their pigheaded ignorance . They never learn


43 posted on 09/22/2016 1:04:14 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: Timpanagos1

‘Based on their names’? Donors to Trump, who hasn’t asked big donors for money? This is satire!

Because of Trump’s unusual campaign financing and his partnership with the RNC, the facts of any big donor’s money to Trump won’t be known until after the election is over.

Most Jewish donors in politics spend their money in superPACs rather than directly to campaigns anyway.


44 posted on 09/22/2016 1:10:01 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Disestablishmentarian

Jews may feel more secure when they are just one more ethnic group in a multicultural country.


45 posted on 09/22/2016 1:14:56 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Timpanagos1

All three of them?


46 posted on 09/22/2016 1:23:29 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: Timpanagos1

If Trump wins he will have very few favors to pay back


47 posted on 09/22/2016 1:25:44 AM PDT by BRL
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To: Timpanagos1
In recent years, Republicans have made inroads into the overwhelmingly Democratic constituency of American Jews.

I call BS on this one.
48 posted on 09/22/2016 1:55:28 AM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: "Prepare for some serious 2016 house cleaning. Trump/Pence 2016!")
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To: Timpanagos1

As I’ve said before, one look at the voting patterns of Jewish voters in the presidential elections over the last 40 years would lead me to conclude that they are collectively a bunch of mentally retarded voters.


49 posted on 09/22/2016 2:17:43 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Disestablishmentarian

I think you are on to something there. How would they have learned nationalism if they hadn’t had one. But one would have thought that with the war victory brought to us by the stewardship of FDR and cleaned up by Trueman, the creation of their own ancestral lands as their new homeland would have counted for something.

Maybe it is because they didn’t have to do the heavy lifting for that creation although giving all due respect for those who served. Maybe they were actually strains of the Communist Jews who fled here? It is very perplexing.


50 posted on 09/22/2016 2:26:45 AM PDT by mazda77 (The solution: Vote Trump)
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To: Rusty0604

I hate to tell you this but that sand was probably found under a pile of donkey sh!t...she’s been laughing at you all these years because you’re so gullible.


51 posted on 09/22/2016 2:40:38 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Timpanagos1

this posted article says her support among Jewish voters in NYC has dropped some.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3471730/posts#comment


52 posted on 09/22/2016 2:54:10 AM PDT by b4me (Idolatry is rampant in thoughts and actions. Choose whom you will serve....)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

Keep in mind that compared to the U.S., Israel is a den of Marxism. So when I hear that someone is “strongly pro-Israel,” I give them the same credibility that I would have given to someone who was a strong supporter of East Germany during the Cold War.


53 posted on 09/22/2016 3:00:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Jim Robinson
Looking at you, Ben Shapiro :( (Love Ben Shapiro a brilliant and articulate conservative but he is rabidly Never Trump

Is this a troll?

54 posted on 09/22/2016 3:24:57 AM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right. And Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election.)
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To: TheNext

exactly right. they can’t control Trump with their money


55 posted on 09/22/2016 3:28:48 AM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!)
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To: Timpanagos1

“Jewish donors abandoning GOP”

So what?


56 posted on 09/22/2016 3:38:40 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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To: gubamyster

I’m not in the know in any way, but I’m thinking he’s holding back until Oct. 8, and then bombard the country with the best ads ever. And he needs to set aside a ton of money to combat the “October Surprise” that is sure to hit him at the last minute.

How far before the election did the Swiftboat ads begin? IIRC, maybe it was just a couple weeks — and they were effective.


57 posted on 09/22/2016 3:42:57 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Timpanagos1

Do donors matter this year? Is Trump going hat in hand to them? No and No. Trump does not need their money and is not going around doing traditional fundraisers. Clinton is spending 50+ to 1 against Trump and is barely holding even with him. Were Trump to even the spending, would it really make any difference? I personally do not think so and appreciate the independence Trump has because he not out begging money from traditional donors.


58 posted on 09/22/2016 3:46:14 AM PDT by Reno89519 (It is very simple, Trump/Pence or Clinton/Kaine. Good riddance Lyn' Ted, we regret ever knowing you)
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To: Timpanagos1

Makes sense, Dems are the Fascist Party that wants to enslave them, and given their history of siding with people that will annihilate them over people that will protect them...nothing new here.


59 posted on 09/22/2016 3:57:20 AM PDT by BobL (If Hillary wins, there WILL NOT be another contested election, for decades - think AMNESTY)
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To: Mr. Mojo
So all that being the case, why their hostility to Trump? I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of it by questioning relatives and old friends and acquaintances, but haven’t received any satisfactory answers.

Trump is a nationalist. His motto is "Make America Great". He doesn't appear to be into multiculturalism. This makes many Jews nervous.

60 posted on 09/22/2016 4:09:31 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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