Posted on 11/17/2009 10:37:56 AM PST by freespirited
Republican Jewish Coalition Executive Director Matthew Brooks commented today on a post-election poll done by McLaughlin & Associates in New Jersey on November 3 and 4, 2009:
"Recently released post-election poll results from New Jersey show that Republican Chris Christie won 38% of the Jewish vote this year in his run for governor. We are pleased by Christie's strong showing in the Jewish community in a very close race. [Click here to download a memo of the poll results.]
"The Jewish community was a key battleground in this election, with both Republicans and the Democrats actively campaigning for Jewish support. In past elections, when a New Jersey gubernatorial race was close, the Jewish community made an important difference. This year, as in 1993 and 1997, it is clear that the strong Jewish turnout for Chris Christie helped put the Republican candidate over the top.
"We believe that the 2009 election in New Jersey was not just a referendum on the job Jon Corzine has done as governor, but also on the larger national question of whether voters approve of the policies of President Obama and the Democratic Congress. There is a definite sense of 'buyers' remorse,' especially among independents, about the higher taxes, higher deficits, and higher spending that Obama and Corzine represent.
"New Jersey is a state in serious economic crisis. Given the choice for four more years of Corzine/Obama policies, a large segment of the Jewish community voted for Republican Chris Christie and real change."
Is it possible that they are getting their news these days from Israel instead of the New York Times?
Jews for CHRISTie :-)
Nationally they make up aobut 2% of the population.
How much more could it possibly be there?
Obama won 100% of the moron vote in the 2008 presidential election.
Did a quick google search. In 2006, Jews were 5.5% of the NJ population.
Their percentage of the electorate is probably higher.
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.
How in the hell can ANY JEW vote democrap?????????
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.
By Norman Podhoretz
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.
See post 12 for my explanation. (Sorry I hit post before putting your name on it.)
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.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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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.
This sort of shift might have been enough to shift Florida’s electoral votes.
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.
Especially if Pat Buchanan is running on a 3rd party ticket.
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?
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