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The people I'm friends with or socialize with are all religious, and they are all conservative Republicans. The only Dems I know are not religious. This seems to be a major factor these days. There are plenty of secular Jews who are Republicans (as I have witnessed at Jewish Policy Center events) but you'd be hard pressed to find a religious liberal. Yes, I'm sure all these people have noticed the anti-Israel ANSWER nuts with their swastikas on everything. Secular, liberal Jews are so liberal they think being anti-Israel is a necessary element of their liberal COMPASSION for the oppressed (according to the U.N.)

Jews who still vote Democrat are:

1. Leftist college kids with no Jewish observance in their lives and who know more about Che Guevera than they do about Pesach.

2. Senior citizens who don't want to betray FDR.

3. Baby Boomers, former hippies, and their children who may live pretty solid, normal lives and don't have a clue because they get their news from CNN, Brokaw, and the New York Times.

The people I'm friends with or socialize with are all religious, and they are all conservative Republicans. The only Dems I know are not religious. This seems to be a major factor these days.

It's the same on the Christian / Gentile side of the aisle. Point out any regular Sunday morning churchgoer, I'll guess Republican. Point out any regular Saturday night clubhopper, I'll guess Democrat. And I'll usually be right on both counts.

2. Senior citizens who don't want to betray FDR.

Now that's an interesting category. I would sort of expect some manner of lingering resentment towards FDR for remaining officially neutral while Hitler was razing the ghettos, and waiting for Hitler to declare war on the U.S. rather than immediately jumping in when the first bombs fell on Britain. Poland, even. But then, he did preside over the majority of the War of the Holocaust, and commit to eradicating Nazism... after Pearl Harbor.