Not quite. Eisenhower did relatively well for a Republican with Jewish voters (he was associated with victory in WWII and liberation of the Nazi concentration camps), but he fell far short of obtaining a majority among Jews. Actually, the last time that Jews voted for a Republican was for Warren Harding in 1920.
Before the influx and assimilation of large numbers of eastern European Jews into to the US - from whom the majority of today's American Jews are descended - Jews regularly did vote predominantly Republican from the Civil War to the early twentieth century. Abraham Lincoln and his legend were once honored in the American Jewish community, but Lincoln was subsequently replaced in that role by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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.