Posted on 10/03/2013 2:32:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A striking aspect of the new Pew survey on Jewish Americans is how liberal Jews are. Is it good for the Democrats? You bet.
Why do people vote the way to do? For swing voters, the answer is usually the state of the economy. For most, however, voting patterns are surprisingly fixed. People tend to vote for one party consistently over time. For Jewish American voters, the party of choice has been the Democratic party.
Conservatives have been trying to crack the code for a number of years on how to get Jewish voters over to their side. Based on the findings of the new "Portrait of Jewish Americans" survey from the Pew Research Center, Republicans will need to find a different key. Jews are likely going to be Democrats for the foreseeable future.
Let's start with the fact that the most important determining factor of voting pattern is partisan affiliation. If you identify as a Democrat, you are far more likely to vote Democratic than if you identify as an independent or a Republican. In this instance, 70% of Jews self-identify as leaning to or members of the Democratic party. That compares with just 49% of the American public overall who at least lean Democratic. Only 22% of Jews consider themselves as leaning Republican, compared to 39% of the overall public. Orthodox Jews, who represent no more than 10% of the United States' Jewish population, tend to make up the majority of Republican Jews.
Given their self-identification, it's unlikely that Jewish Americans will break from their Democratic ways. But a closer look at why Jews are Democratic should give Republicans further pause....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
LOL...dang I need more coffee before I post!
I suspect many Jews became lifelong Jews when they first came to the U.S. back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Dem Party was the party that readily accepted immigrants into its fold while the Republican Party, run by the eastern country club elites in those days, rejected immigrants....especially Jews. Rich, Protestant elites who voted Republican were the ones who kept Jews out of their country clubs and discriminated against them in other areas. Attitudes die hard.
One quick fix is to have them visit Israel and see what Jews are capable of. When you see rifle-welding Jewish men and women, you have to shake your head and begin asking questions.
The Jews of Israel face death every friggin’ day at the hands of Arabs and Islamicists. They have no choice but to DEFEND themselves and their position AND back it up with a firepower deterrent.
A visit to Israel will perhaps start the ball to roll in their heads.
The Israelis Ive met/know just shake their heads in disbelief
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Any honest, conservative Jew who knows who he is, welcomes a supportive Christian and is not afraid or have the ACLU knee-jerk anti attitude. Both Jews and Christians are in this thing together and Islam is doing what it can to drive a wedge between the communities...
If Israelis could vote they would have voted 90% Romney because they know the score and they know who Obama really is...
Yes, true and they became hardcore with FDR even though FDR did not lift a finger to help a Jew during WWII. True, he had to conduct a world war and destroy Germany and Japan first but Truman did, FDR did not.
It should have been Jews became lifelong Dems...not Jews became lifelong Jews. Duh!!!
So very true. A recent acquaintance has really opened my eyes about day to day moods/feelings in Israel. There is a sense of total betrayal by the 0bama admin. Mood throughout the military is just plan anger.
I spent many yrs in the ME, N and W Africa as an independent contractor...and can understand their frustrations. Nuff said.
This foolish devotion to FDR and the RAT party was actually passed down from the WWII generation to their Baby Boomer kids JUST in time for Vietnam! What a cocktail of doom!
That meant that many of them opposed the war, see Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and even Bob Dylan (real name Robert Zimmerman), Daniel Elsberg (Pentagon Papers) were anti-establishment and by 1974 had tossed Nixon and US support for Vietnam into the trash bin.
So, being a RAT in “Tradition” has replaced classic Jewish tradition to the Torah and Conservatism to the point now that unfortunately, the Boomer children and grandchildren push the Obamian, Homo-diversity agenda instead of looking out for their own people.
Torah learning has been replaced by the cries for “Justice” for the bisexual, beached whales or Trans-gender geese!! Save them!!!
The world was asleep in 1938, and she was asleep in 1981 when the Israelis decimated Saddam's nuclear facility, yet again in 2005 and 2007 knocking out Syria's nuclear facilities.
Why does the fate of the world always rest on that tiny country and people? Israel is about the size of New Jersey for crissakes!
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I’m a member of a Reform Jewish congregation, and I’ve heard Mona Charon describe Reform Judaism as the Democratic Party with holidays. I have no doubt that our current Rabbi is liberal, but he keeps his politics off of the pulpit, and gives great sermons.
His predecessor delivered a lot of sermons that could have been summed up in two words, “Bush sucks.” It would have saved a lot of time.
2,000 years of oppression has made Jews wary. The Democrats have been very good at exploiting that wariness. I can’t seem to get it through the thick skulls of my stiff-necked fellow Jews that modern America is different, and why it is different.
In one political sense, Jews are no different from Gentiles: just as liberal-churched (ELCA, PCUSA, UMC, Episcopal) and non-churched Gentiles tend to be Democrats/Greens, while small-o orthodox-churched (LCMS, ARP, SBC, AOG, traditional Catholics) Gentiles tend to be Republicans/Libertarians, Reform, Reconstructionist, and non-synagogue Jews tend to be Democrats/Greens, while Orthodox and Conservative-synagogue Jews tend to be Republicans/Libertarians.
A second point is that the bulk of Jews who emigrated to America in the early 20th century were already socialists, and they came here to escape persecution from culturally-conservative totalitarians, which is how conservatives are often perceived today by non-conservatives--so being an American Jew and supporting Ted Cruz is thought of as the 21st century equivalent of being a Ukrainian Jew and supporting the Tsar a hundred years ago.
Finally, there is one aspect of the American Jewish experience that is unique. For Gentile ancestors, America was the "promised land" to which they came, and which was their destination, but American Jews have a "promised land," Israel, and those with the future-looking, religiously motivated, entrepreneurial spirit become Israelis, leaving behind what becomes a greater percentage of American Jews being more European-socialist, meaning Democrats.
A strain of antipathy towards Christianity runs deep through the Jewish community. A love of socialism also runs deep through the Jewish community. Thus they will not align themselves with a party that is seen as pro-Christian and anti-socialist.
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The net effect of all these movements (women's rights, black rights, gay rights, etc) is to divide the country into innumerable little factions.
Could it be that this is the objective? That they feel more comfortable as a little group in a country of little groups, then as a little group in a country which is unified, but where the dominant group is not one they feel like they can align with?
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