[expat1000]

Jewish vote ping

[Michigander222]

Good to see Romney crack that nut.

[arasina]

And the defection of the Jewish vote means that Obama has lost every major religion in the country. The Protestant vote is heavily going against him and he’s hanging on to the Catholic vote by a few percent, meaningless within the margin of error. The only religion he’s decisively winning amongst is “No Religion”. I would also assume he’s romping home with the Muslim vote, but unlike Europe, that’s not too much of a factor here yet.

Hah! I posted a moment ago without having read beyond the headline. (tsk tsk) Only when I went back to read it did I realize it was written in the inimitable style of Daniel Greenfield. He's one person I would love to meet someday. What a mind!

[Ancesthntr]

Its about time that my co-religionists woke up and realized that there are huge differences between these 2 people - differences that correlate perfectly to the different approaches of the parties on issues of import to Jewish voters.

[I still care]

I live in a red half suburban, half semi-rural area of FL. The only bank of Obama signs I’ve seen so far is the line in front of the gay bar on one of our main roads. It sticks out like a sore thumb. So Obama has the depravity vote.

I’m sure there are some in front of Dem HQ but I haven’t driven past there recently.

[chesley]

What do ya suppose woke ‘en up?

[Fawn]

Yeah, well....Rush mentioned yesterday he would not rule out a bombing with Israel on Iran, before the election....a desperate gimmick for votes...

[Ingtar]

With past voting tendencies, Republican Jews are over-sampled. :) If true, however, it is doom for Dims’ chances.

[wildbill]

I believe you can sense a seismic shift in the long-term preference of Jews for the democratic party.

The social issues they heavily prefer (abortion for example) still prevent them from a full swing to the GOP, but when a influential and generous part of the Democratic base moves away or to neutral, then the Dems have to be scared and be prepared to throw Obama overboard.

Dems cannot afford to have heavy political donors, influential citizens in many areas of our culture, and sure-to-vote folks decide to change or turn neutral.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This is pleasantly surprising, if true.

A million votes here, a million votes there... it looks like it’s starting to pile up in R/R’s favor.

[nwrep]

Sorry, but this is a nonsensical poll with a MOE of probably >15% due to the small sample size. I don't think we should believe this kind of extreme nonsense.

I am certain 0 will get less Jewish support this time than he did in 2008, but would be shocked if he got fewer than 70% of the Jewish vote in 2012. In 2008, he won 78%.

[xp38]

In the 2011 Canadian election the Conservative Party wooed and finally won over the small (smaller than the US) but influential Jewish vote. It resulted in the first majority Conservative government since the 1988 election. Consider that a foreshadowing perhaps of this years election if this news is accurate. Another foreshadowing might be the Republican victory of the house seat that Anthony Weiner vacated. It was dismissed by the usual suspects in the MSM at the time except for the comment by Bill Maher that the pubs had stolen the dims Jewish vote.

[justiceseeker93]

Much too small a sample of Jews for these numbers to mean anything. If there are only 812 voters sampled and Jews are, for the sake of argument, something like 3-4% of the national electorate, that makes the total number of Jews sampled around 30, much too low to make any statistically valid generalized assessment of the national Jewish vote.

The intuitive guess here is that the national Jewish vote will be approximately 60% for Obama, 40% for Romney.

This shift of Jewish voters toward the GOP - in comparison to 2004 - will help put Florida back in the Republican column. Not surprising that Romney now has a seven-point lead in that crucial state according to a (left-leaning) newspaper-sponsored poll released yesterday.