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I must say that even though I am Jewish, I know very little on my group’s voting history. I know that because of FDR that they started voting for Democrats and why they vote for Democrats in a majority most of the time. I however didn’t know that the last time they voted for a Republican was Harding in 1920, yet I have heard from a Jewish Liberal turned Conservative that at that time in history most Jews were not treated real well by Republicans. It is also interesting how FDR has replaced many political heroes to where it became “ethical” to become a Democrat. Nevermind that FDR didn’t want to make WWII a “Jewish War”.

I also, however, know that Jews as a political group have been less loyal to the Republicans than Blacks have, interestingly enough.

However, with that set aside as I keep getting educated on here(these details are actually quite interesting.) I have another question. What is the Muslim Voting Bloc’s track history on voting? I wonder who most Muslims supported during Carter’s run for a second term which was not to be. Now that I am interested in.

Were they predominately political like other groups? I know about contemporary attitudes but what about even in the 1920s or so? I know that CAIR endorsed Bush and than endorsed Kerry who most Muslims voted for. I am sort of fascinated in the trends of various voting blocs(College students, the elderly), and especially fascinated by how much of the youth vote Reagan got in 1984.

In answer to your question on the "Muslim voting bloc," there were so few Muslim voters in the country until the last decade or two that no one in the political world had been conscious of them. So there is no historical info available there. There were a handful of Arab-Americans who achieved high public office in the last several decades, but these were all Christians, not Muslims.

I also ... know that Jews as a political group have been less loyal to the Republicans than Blacks have.

I don't know what you mean by that. The voting patterns of Jews and Blacks parallel each other to an extent. Both were predominantly Republican in the post-Civil War years. Jewish voters, when they became predominantly of eastern European origin by the 1920s, then swung over the Dems, even a decade or so before FDR, though FDR did accelerate that process enormously. Blacks (those outside the South who could vote) were Republican a bit longer, even voting predominantly for Hoover vs. Roosevelt in 1932. They switched dramatically to FDR and the Dems in 1936 and have remained even more loyal to them since then. Since the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Blacks have been constantly voting about 90% for the 'Rats, while Jews as a group have been somewhat less loyal, averaging somewhere in the 70-75% range.

For most large immigrant ethnic groups, the general pattern is that they vote predominantly Democrat at first, then become more like the rest of of the country as they assimilate more in succeeding generations. The Jews seem to be an exception to that rule, which is why this subject causes so much consternation to conservatives, Jewish and non-Jewish.