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Polls show Obama making big gains with Jewish voters
Canadian Jewish News ^ | 10.30.08 | ERIC FINGERHUT, JTA

Posted on 10/28/2008 9:29:23 PM PDT by trumandogz

WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Barack Obama is making significant gains among Jewish voters, according to two new polls.

The polls suggest that after months of hovering around 60 per cent, Obama appears to be within striking distance of the 75 to 80 per cent of the Jewish vote won by the three previous Democratic nominees for president. A Gallup tracking poll of 564 registered Jewish voters, taken over the first three weeks of October, found Obama leading Republican John McCain by a 74 to 22 per cent margin. That was a 13-point increase in support for the Democratic nominee since Gallup’s July poll, which had Obama leading 61 to 34 per cent.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jewishvote; mccain; obama
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To: Cap74

LOL I think that was Freddy Prince!


21 posted on 10/28/2008 9:44:35 PM PDT by Batman11
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To: pissant

Kerry made HUGE gains with Jews just before the last election.

I didn’t believe it then either.


22 posted on 10/28/2008 9:45:46 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Caper29

There is a lot of visible Jewish support for 0bama in Miami.

I was in line to get into a concert the other day, and a family of Jews in front of us was busy telling the (black) ticket taker how much they adored 0bama and how they had gone to the rally the previous day, and we so in love.

As far as I know,the girl was not an apparent 0bama supporter (not wearing a pin, etc). They were just proving to her how non-racist and progressive they were, to give such love to a (half) black man. I about puked at the ultra-transparent pander..


23 posted on 10/28/2008 9:45:50 PM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama is not your hip black friend)
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To: trumandogz
Jews in a general sense are communists first and Jews second. Just check out the early soviet leadership.
24 posted on 10/28/2008 9:45:54 PM PDT by A6M3
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To: Clintonfatigued

I think it may be skewed toward the ‘Rats by these factors: (1) It’s conducted by Gallup; (2) The Tom Bradley effect - probably bigger in Jews than in the general population; (3) This is a 21 day time period in which Orthodox and some Conservative Jews would not participate on 9 of the 21 days because of Sabbaths and holidays. (Orthodox Jews would show a strong majority for McCain.)


25 posted on 10/28/2008 9:46:02 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Caper29

Oh come on, the Jewish Vote typically goes Dhimmicrat by 70%, anything in that neighborhood is typical performance from them.

Now the real block, the one they did not poll is the Evangelical Community who makes it a fact of life to support Israel, they are not mentioned in the story.


26 posted on 10/28/2008 9:46:41 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Kerry also did not hang around a bunch of anti-jewish terrorists


27 posted on 10/28/2008 9:47:09 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: notaliberal

Thousands of years of history points to modern-day Jewish liberalism.

Even Jewish “conservatives” are far to the left of most right-wing Republicans.


28 posted on 10/28/2008 9:47:54 PM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama is not your hip black friend)
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To: trumandogz

564 voters? LOL!!!! not, it’snot accurate. Israel is everything to these people. Obama is not their man.


29 posted on 10/28/2008 9:48:17 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: trumandogz
Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher told it like it is: If Obama gets elected, it will kill Israel. He was interviewed by Fox about his statement and he said that he was not going to go into the details but encouraged voters to do the research themselves.

It looks like Jews voting for Obama have not done any research.

30 posted on 10/28/2008 9:50:43 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: notaliberal

As some one that comes from a Jewish background, … don’t count them out. The younger generations are conservative.


31 posted on 10/28/2008 9:51:47 PM PDT by doc1019 (Why is Obama hiding his birth certificate?)
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To: trumandogz
This is like the joke about chickens voting for the Colonel.
32 posted on 10/28/2008 9:52:33 PM PDT by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Jews represent about 1.7% of voters...doesn't matter how they vote.

On the other hand Jewish organizations like AIPAC and others make dispropotionately large cash controbutions (on a per capita basis), so the big question is were does the money lead?

33 posted on 10/28/2008 9:54:04 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Boiling Pots

lot of jewish people live in my moms building in GA..every single one of them is voting for Obama...
my jewish neighbors in dallas=obama
my jewish friends in NC and SC=obama

I truly don’t get it...I think its blind following much like 90% of my black friends


34 posted on 10/28/2008 9:55:28 PM PDT by HuzzahSnyper
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To: Boiling Pots
The ones who count are the ones in South Fla. Lieberman should hit this area hard.

Liberman is an idiot. He goes to synogogues and tells them "McCain is a friend of Israel, and so is Obama", and only warns them of Obama's plan to meet Iran's leader "without preconditions". Wright is not mentioned, nor Farrakhan, nor Khalidi, nor the Arab Institute.

35 posted on 10/28/2008 9:56:16 PM PDT by FreepShop1
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To: doc1019

Who did they poll, Century Village? Some of them still think that they’re voting for FDR.


36 posted on 10/28/2008 9:57:00 PM PDT by Yankereb
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To: Boiling Pots

Yeah, where is Lieberman? Haven’t seen him lately.


37 posted on 10/28/2008 9:57:38 PM PDT by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: pissant

Actually, I thought I was having a de javu moment when I saw the headline. I quite sure some newspaper run the same headline during the last week four years ago.

Maybe even the same story, just changed the names.


38 posted on 10/28/2008 9:58:18 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

if it is they must hate israel


39 posted on 10/28/2008 9:58:39 PM PDT by television is just wrong (the Democrats have lost cabin pressure and the oxygen masks have dropped.)
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To: trumandogz

Hell ye they know if Obama gets elected that means they get to blow the hell out of Iran before Bush leaves office
they know Obama will not help them at all this just speeds up the process it gives them a reason to bomb Iran,


40 posted on 10/28/2008 9:59:42 PM PDT by MATSEVAH
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