This has been debated before. The answer is that most American Jews are from urban areas and urban areas lean way Left. In other words their liberalism trumps their Judaism.
If I had a dollar for every time I have seen this question proposed.
Ping for your thoughts!
Orthodox ones are.
The vote of American Jews is not different from their cohorts in the same geographic area, same age, same education level and same income.
Now, why would you expect Jews to vote differently than the cohorts they place themselves?
Conservative Jews are hanging out on FreeRepublic!! Check out rjchq.org - Republican Jewish Coalition
There are Jews in Israel on FR as well.
Orthodox Jews are Conservative - check it out!
Please don’t paint all Jews as Liberal! Remember Obama being invited to Notre Dame? Wanna say all Catholics are Liberal?
Israelis and eastern euro Jews seem to be much more conservative. NYC and S Florida Jews are the most liberal and the worst
Jews do have the distinction, in my book at least, of voting AGAINST their pocketbook every chance they get.
Others with money vote to protect that money (Republicans), people without money vote for those that will take money from others and hand to them (Democrats), but Jews have money and yet vote for people that will take it form them and hand it to others that don’t feel like working.
Go figure.
They do it for the exact same reason Blacks vote lockstep for Democrats, basic survival. The last time the Jews stood up to the Democrats, the Party Leader had them rounded up and led to the Gas Chambers for extermination, just like the Blacks and the KKK.
Self Guilt.
Why are so many essentially socialist and in favor of gun control? That whole socialist gun control thing did not work out well for them roughly 80 years ago. Seemingly the “Never Forget” mantra suffers from a certain selective memory.
No, go to hell.
Post it here or die in a fire.
Bfl
They are functionally atheist.
The biggest factor IMHO is that the vast majority of American Jews emigrated from Russia and Eastern Europe and arrived in America with socialist or at least leftist views.
Around 1800, Poland was partitioned and disappeared for over 100 years. Russia swallowed most of the old Poland/Lithuania kingdom, bringing into Russia large numbers of Jews. Russia also occupied Latvia and Lithuania.
Suddenly, the Jews went from the relatively benign Polish administration to the harsh Czarist state, including several severe pogroms.
There was no outlet for political agitation in the Czarist state. Serfdom wasn't even abolished until 1861. People wanting to oppose the regime turned to anarchism and Marxism, which provided the only organized opposition to the regime. So, Jews arrived in America with a predisposition to leftist politics.
These days liberal jews vote the same way that liberal catholics and protestants vote.
Orthodox jews vote the same way that conservative catholics and evangelicals (conservative protestants) vote.
The liberals have basically become the pharaoh party because when one becomes a functioning atheist then the highest power is the state.
It’s hard to find any so called ‘conservative’ jews that made it through this election with their reputations and careers intact.
Most we’re outed as gas-lighters and neverTrumpers.
Here’s 20 prominent ones...
http://rightwingnews.com/john-hawkins/the-20-most-influential-conservative-jews-in-politics/
Given that I have read the comments on this thread and have already noted that my precious KC-Lion has been pinged, I’ll answer the question anecdotally.
The elderly Jews I have known over the years including when I was much younger all told me they voted with the Democrats because they thought the Democrats looked out for the “poor” much better than the rich Republicans, like Nelson Rockefeller for example.
Now that I am OLD, almost all of my Jewish friends vote Republican, including my classmates from elementary and high school, with whom I keep in touch.
They’ve been voting wrong since Barabbas...