Posted on 08/17/2004 10:26:07 AM PDT by white trash redneck
A new poll commissioned by the National Jewish Democratic Council says American Jews will still vote overwhelmingly for the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, despite US President George W. Bush's policies toward Israel, which have been widely praised by the Jewish community.
The poll, released on Monday, said American Jews preferred Kerry to Bush by a 75 to 22 percent margin. The survey of 817 likely Jewish voters was conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research between July 26 and 28, and has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percent.
Respondents said in 2000 they had voted for Vice President Al Gore over Bush by a similar margin of 76 to 21 percent.
Exit polls in 2000 showed Gore won 79 percent of the Jewish vote, and Bush 19 percent.
"The White House and (President Bush's political adviser) Karl Rove in particular have expended a lot of resources on this Jewish vote. Just like with Hispanics, they've come up with zero," said Ira Forman, executive director of NJDC.
Matthew Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a rival group, discounted the survey's results since the poll was taken during the Democratic Convention in Boston.
"I discount these findings because this poll was taken right in the middle of the Democratic Convention, right in the middle of a massive deluge of Kerry press coverage," Brooks said.
"We stand firmly committed to the notion that President Bush will do substantially better among Jewish voters than he did in 2000," Brooks added.
Another survey of American Jewish opinion in January found that 31 percent of Jews would support Bush when matched with Kerry, who was not yet the nominee at the time.
The new NJDC survey said 66 percent found Kerry to be better on the issue of Israel, while 34 percent found Bush to be. Only 23 percent of respondents felt the country was moving in the right direction, while 77 percent said it was on the wrong track. Twenty-five percent approved strongly or somewhat of the way Bush is handling his job as president, while 75 percent disapproved strongly or somewhat.
A new national Zogby survey released Monday showed Kerry ahead of Bush 47 to 43 percent. Without Independent Ralph Nader and other candidates the lead stretched to 50 to 43 percent.
Agree. But consider this poll as simply false. Its just impossible.
Oh, okay.
So you make the claim that "most Jews" wish doom upon Christianity, based on nothing other than your own "observations".
Unsubstantiated, highly inaccurate, and not very nice. Please don't do that.
I hope they will do so in the months to come.
I hadn't heard that stat before. That's very encouraging.
- I'm afraid that you are right and the attacks are getting bolder and more open, especially from the Hollywood establishment. This increased willingness to mock, belittle and attack Christians seems to have begun in ernest about 30 to 40 years ago by the ACLU and it's constant stream of lawsuits against any Christian based ministries which have been tried before judges who in many cases are Jews themselves and therefor sympathetic to secular, if not anti-Christian, arguments. These people wrap themselves in the US Constitution as the reasons for their actions but I sometimes wonder if the goal isn't the complete elimination of Christianity in the public life of America and to drive it underground and out of sight.
The vast majority of liberals are gentiles, not Jews.
And yet you seem to want to blame the Jews. Why is that?
Pawns of the Jews, just like GWB. Follow the money, and the media. Did you forget how to play this game?
The truth is rarely "nice", which is why most folks avoid it.
Well, they will have to live with kerry and his policies if they vote for him. So be it.
You make a baseless slur, provide no evidence, and then are surprised that someone calls you on it?
O-ya and how...
Kinda like the premise that "most Jews wish doom upon Christianity"?
Thanks for the info. Glad to know there is a Republican Jewish Coalition.
I see also that the outfit that took this poll is apparently left leaning. Hopefully the numbers are skewed. If Mr Bush can pick up even a third of Jewish voters this year then that is an improvement.
The vast majority of liberals are non-Scandinavians so is it wrong to ponder why most Scandinavians in Minnesota vote for 'rats?
The vast majority of liberals are white so is it wrong to ponder why most blacks vote for Democrats? Is it to "blame" blacks to question why they mostly vote for 'rats?
I'm very "anti-lunatic"
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