RJC: Christie won 38% of Jewish vote in NJ gubernatorial race

Republican Jewish Coalition ^ | 11/17/09

[freespirited]

The sample size here was very small (72 Jewish voters), limiting interpretation of the results. Still, I think the results are worth noting.

[kempster]

Is it possible that they are getting their news these days from Israel instead of the New York Times?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Jews for CHRISTie :-)

[Pessimist]

Nationally they make up aobut 2% of the population.

How much more could it possibly be there?

[wny]

Obama won 100% of the moron vote in the 2008 presidential election.

[freespirited]

Did a quick google search. In 2006, Jews were 5.5% of the NJ population.

Their percentage of the electorate is probably higher.

[OldDeckHand]

Not to be a bucket of cold water, but it's not uncommon for Governors and certainly mayors to defy political convention and to attract voters that don't vote Republican in National races. McDonnell in VA did well better with blacks that McCain did just a year before.

While the NJ results might be a hopeful sign that at least some American-Jews have "seen the light" (or come to Christie - get it?), it's in no way a guarantee that they'll vote any differently in2012 than they have in the previous 15 Presidential elections.

[Mr. K]

How in the hell can ANY JEW vote democrap?????????

[OldDeckHand]

"Obama won 100% of the moron vote in the 2008 presidential election."

Not a 100% - Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney received almost a million combined votes. Obama probably only garnered 99.983% of the moron vote, give or take.

[AreaMan]

One answer is documented in this book:

Why Are Jews Liberals?

By Norman Podhoretz

[truthguy]

Obama won 78% of the Jewish vote. This is madness and definitely suicidal. One of my Jewish friends who didn't vote for Obama has told me that the penchant for Jews to vote liberal is a very complicated issue that goes deep into the Jewish psyche and Jewish history. Even he doesn't completely understand it and is very frustrated by it.

[freespirited]

It’s irrational and stupid (I know because I have been there). But it makes sense in the context of personality.

Jews tend to be very idealistic people (They want to “cure the world”). The social engineering of the RAT party seems more in line with this worldview to them.

Of course logic should have prevailed by now. But Jews in the U.S. are generally insulated from experiencing the failure of RAT policies. Note the difference between Jews here and Jews in Israel; living under constant threat, the latter almost all think more like Republicans and have little good to say about the O administration.

[freespirited]

See post 12 for my explanation. (Sorry I hit post before putting your name on it.)

[hlmencken3]

The FReeper angst over the Jewish vote is a waste of time. Jews are crammed into twelve overwhelmingly Democrat metro areas, and maybe twice that many mostly Democrat congressional districts.

There are more potential Republican voters among unregistered or Democrat-voting evangelical Christians than there are total Jewish voters.

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[SJackson]

The FReeper angst over the Jewish vote is a waste of time. Jews are crammed into twelve overwhelmingly Democrat metro areas, and maybe twice that many mostly Democrat congressional districts.

Not only is that true, but the Jews in those metro areas vote pretty much the same as and non-Jews in those metro areas. You take the fun out of everything.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This sort of shift might have been enough to shift Florida’s electoral votes.

[SJackson]

Obama won Florida by about 200,000 votes. Around 650,000 Jews in Florida, all ages. Very generously, half are voters and actually voted, a 15% or 20% shift wouldn’t have mattered. Fortunately GWB won the state in 2000, but a 1% shift would have mattered then, so it could be significant in some states, like Florida.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Especially if Pat Buchanan is running on a 3rd party ticket.

[rmlew]

72 voters? N=11%. That is a plus or minus of 11%. It could be 49% or 27%. This is worthless. Actually, it is worse. What is the variability? Were they all in one area?