I think this figure may represent registration or affiliation with a party but it seems low to me. As a Jew who was raised in a conservative Republican family I can relate to pressures within my community to support the Democratic party. However, I live in Central Pennsylvania and I know at least 40% of the Jews living in this region are registered Republican.
When I went to vote for President Bush in November 2000 I engaged a poll worker (who was a Jewish lady) in a conversation-- my registration had been changed to a different location since the address on my license changed & I wasn't sure where to vote. I commented in passing that my candidate needed every vote if he was to win Pennsylvania. This lady told me to go to the court house in case I needed an expidited registration. I thanked her and told her W needed every vote from Central PA since Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are Democratic strongholds. She then told me she hoped that I wouldn't find the correct polling place, thereby missing my opportunity to vote, and I was wrong to vote Republican. Needless to say I lit her up.
I have lived in New York City and the institutionalized liberal Jews there make me sick. They are the worst kind of socialist lemmings; worse than the Blacks who blindly follow Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson down the road of government funded entitlement. I could care less that Lieberman was Jewish-- he was not as competent as either Bush or Chaney when it came to Domestic policy, and now we have learned with foriegn policy as well.
I believe Jews who continue to support the Democratic party invite anihilation of our faith. The Talmud does not support the principles underpinning the planks of the Democratic party. Homosexuality, Pro-Abortion and limiting the right to defend ourselves are not part and parcell of our religion. The recent reformation in Judaism over the last century has diluted and misrepresented our identity as a culture. Liberal Jews cringe at the mentioning of "Family Values", yet it is precisely these Values which will help to preserve Judaism for our descendants.
The Republican Party is no longer reliably anti-Holocaust, but pro-Holocaust Jews are going to remain with the Democratic Party, unless the Republican Party can be transformed completely into a pro-Holocaust party.
Jews are, in many ways, no different than their gentile neighbors in the northeast when it comes to liberalism on this issue. The notion of the "conservative white Catholic voter" doesn't exist anymore in NY/NJ.
My family and myself are part of the 10%, except when I voted libertarian against my rino senator dick lugar. My father also admits not voting republican once, by voting for Mcgovern.
It is an opportunity for both Republicans and Jewish people to find common ground but traditionalists on both sides will probably scuttle the opportunity. Too bad that politics and Political correctness will get in the way of reason and justice. Maybe that best summarizes the Jewish attitude anyway.
Boy, that's the kind of statistic that could make you awfully cynical.
I am, of course, mindful of the social concerns of many American Jews, which are at odds with the positions of the Republican Party on issues such as abortion
Or, to paraphrase the inimitable Ben Stein, you could say that 10% of the Hebrew population paid attention when they were told Thou shalt not kill, and the other 90% went back to worshipping the Golden Calf.
The truth of the matter is a lot worse than that, however. There are two dirty little secrets of American politics that no one likes to talk about. The first is the horrible animosity that blacks exhibit towards whites. The second is the pure, unadulterated hatred that Jews experience when confronted with Jesus Christ. So long as the Republican party is associated with Christianity, this dream of a Jewish swing to Republicanism is just a fantasy.
As for national elections, the 2000 elections were intersting. Bush won a plurality of voters under 35. This is quite good given that in the Jewish community, Gore was irrelevent in what became a Bush-Leiberman race.