Exit polls: 78% of Jews voted for Obama

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/5/2008 | staff

[Nachum]

Exit polls from MSNBC, CNN and Fox have shown that US president-elect Barack Obama received 78 percent of the Jewish vote in Tuesday's presidential election, whilst his rival, Republican John McCain, received 21%.

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Slideshow: Pictures of the week The polls all put Jews at 2% of the poll sample.

In 2004, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry won 74% of the Jewish vote, and in 2000, Al Gore received 79%.

The MSNBC data found the numbers amongst Christians in Tuesday's election were far closer, with 45 percent of Protestants and other Christians and 54% of Catholics voting for Obama. Together, they made up 81%of the poll sample.

[autumnraine]

78% of jews do not need to cry over Isreal.

[Boiling Pots]

They will rue the day, I swear it.

[Rocko]

Nearly the opposite of the polls in Israel.

[anniegetyourgun]

In that day, it will be too late.

[nevergore]

They just swept Israel into the dustbin of history.....

[DAC21]

They just can’t help themselves from willingly walking to the showers.

[MissMagnolia]

Tag line.

[Moconservative]

Question—Do Jews in America care about Israel?

With this voting I would assume they don’t.

If they do they are voting against their own self-interest.

[demsux]

I’m beginning to think that if American Jews don’t even support Israel through their voting...then why the hell do I (a Catholic) give a rats ass about it?

[ought-six]

Now I fully understand why European Jews calmly walked to their deaths in 1939-1945: They truly are suicidal. Go figure.

[silverleaf]

they are guiltiest-feeling white liberals in American society

They will reap what they sow- but so will we

[AbeKrieger]

Stunning and disgraceful. They will live to mourn the passing of Israel and Jerusalem. It started last night.

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

as one of the other 22%, I am so very sad and so very scared today.

I will never understand the other meshuggah 78%; I will never understand how they view the world. Did they not learn the lessons of the past? Well, apparently not.

[Gay State Conservative]

One of the many “tests” that President Hussein will face (soon!)is Iran v Israel.Hussein will treat Iran with kidd gloves...and might even openly side with them.Then we'll see how many Jews vote for him next time.

[Apercu]

Chickens voting for Col. Sanders.

[roses of sharon]

Bigots.

[pgyanke]

Anyone see any numbers on the Catholic vote?

[NetSurfer]

Exactly. They clearly don't give a sh*t. Why should we?

From now on, I care about my own family. THAT IS ALL.

PS I can smell the racism brewing...

[GinaLolaB]

In my opinion, the only thing that happened yesterday was that the NeoCon Jews handed power back to the Liberal Jews.