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Romney Now Beating Obama among Jewish Voters [Affiliation 39%D-30R!]
frontpagemag.com/the-point ^ | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 10/12/2012 4:40:32 AM PDT by expat1000

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To: expat1000

In the 2011 Canadian election the Conservative Party wooed and finally won over the small (smaller than the US) but influential Jewish vote. It resulted in the first majority Conservative government since the 1988 election. Consider that a foreshadowing perhaps of this years election if this news is accurate. Another foreshadowing might be the Republican victory of the house seat that Anthony Weiner vacated. It was dismissed by the usual suspects in the MSM at the time except for the comment by Bill Maher that the pubs had stolen the dims Jewish vote.


21 posted on 10/12/2012 7:35:17 AM PDT by xp38
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To: nwrep
Sorry, but this is a nonsensical poll with a MOE of probably >15% due to the small sample size. I don't think we should believe this kind of extreme nonsense.

From the article, in case you missed it.

A few notes. This is a small sample size. Numbers like this may vanish just as quickly as they came, but other polls do suggest that there has been a shift. I wouldn’t bet on Romney winning the Jewish vote straight out, but he’ll probably win more of it than anyone would have expected two months ago. So I wouldn’t get too excited just yet.

"Extreme nonsense?" Really?

22 posted on 10/12/2012 7:42:02 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: expat1000
"Extreme nonsense?" Really?

Yes, it is like someone claiming that 0 will win the white NRA vote. It just won't happen.

However, 0 will lose a significant fraction of his 2008 share of the Jewish vote, and will lose Florida....

23 posted on 10/12/2012 8:00:17 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Thank you. I remember that. I was thinking more of the 2008 election campaign, when a prominent Frum businessman hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. Many in the community gave him a lot of grief for doing so. I think then-Governor Corzine attended that event.

It saddens me to say that I believe some support will still go to Obama if he promises a different pardon this time: Jonathan Pollard.

24 posted on 10/12/2012 8:02:06 AM PDT by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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To: expat1000; Impala64ssa; Bluestocking; CaptainAmiigaf; Netz; eddiespaghetti; jjotto; redpoll; ...
Much too small a sample of Jews for these numbers to mean anything. If there are only 812 voters sampled and Jews are, for the sake of argument, something like 3-4% of the national electorate, that makes the total number of Jews sampled around 30, much too low to make any statistically valid generalized assessment of the national Jewish vote.

The intuitive guess here is that the national Jewish vote will be approximately 60% for Obama, 40% for Romney.

This shift of Jewish voters toward the GOP - in comparison to 2004 - will help put Florida back in the Republican column. Not surprising that Romney now has a seven-point lead in that crucial state according to a (left-leaning) newspaper-sponsored poll released yesterday.

25 posted on 10/12/2012 11:36:55 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
The intuitive guess here is that the national Jewish vote will be approximately 60% for Obama, 40% for Romney.

That's probably closer to reality, although it might even be 55/45. I can only speak for own Jewish family members, every single one of whom, to my knowledge, is going to vote for Romney. I am rather sure that some of them have never before voted for a Republican.

But even a 60/40 result would represent a significant shift away from Obama and it will likely be accompanied by similar moves among Catholics and metropolitan area suburban voters.

In any event, it is very good news for Romney and bad news for Obama.

26 posted on 10/12/2012 12:12:46 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: arasina; All
I can certainly believe this of the Orthodox Jewish community. I will never understand their past support for Hillary Clinton, though.

The Orthodox Jewish community will vote for Romney much more decisively than this 44-40, but they are only perhaps 10-15 percent of the American Jewish electorate.

As for the alleged Orthodox Jewish past support for Hillary Clinton, I think you are referring to an isolated incident where one Hasidic community in Rockland County, NY voted almost unanimously for "Her Royal Thighness" when she ran for US Senate. You have to realize that these insular Hasidic communities are small segments of the Orthodox Jewish community, and have a pattern and historic custom of acting in unison according to the wishes of their community rabbi who, amongst his other functions, mediates various interactions of his community with the outside world. In the Hillary Clinton case, IIRC, the near unanimous vote of the particular Hasidic community for her was a payback for a pardon she had assisted in obtaining for one of the community's members.

27 posted on 10/12/2012 12:14:59 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: dirtboy
I see almost no Obama signs this year - including some yards where there are signs for other Dem candidates such as Casey but not Obama.

Any Romney signs?

28 posted on 10/12/2012 1:42:12 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: babble-on
We live in hope, but somehow I fear this poll is incorrect.

Please see my post # 25.

29 posted on 10/12/2012 1:43:26 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: wildbill
Dems cannot afford to have heavy political donors, influential citizens in many areas of our culture, and sure-to-vote folks decide to change or turn neutral.

Most especially in Florida, and perhaps in other battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Nevada.

30 posted on 10/12/2012 1:49:27 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks justiceseeker93. Another reason for Lew Rockwell fans to oppose Romney.


31 posted on 10/12/2012 7:32:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: justiceseeker93

I think I’ve seen one Romney sign, saw more McCain signs in 2008.


33 posted on 10/13/2012 7:04:12 AM PDT by dirtboy
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