Posted on 04/16/2005 10:11:48 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Quite a claim in that title, isn't it? Anyone who is interested in voting trends and tendencies in the United States electorate is well aware that Jewish Americans usually vote far more often for the Democratic candidate in our presidential elections than they do the Republican. However, a recent survey on Jewish voters in the 2004 election relayed the startling fact that half of American Jews who attend Temple regularly voted for George W. Bush.
This is survey was not made by a Republican either, by the way. The man reporting this finding is Democratic candidate John Kerry's pollster, Mark Mellman who, according to a recent L.A.Times article , reported his study results conducted during the 2004 campaign's final month.
Mellman's study found that Americans of all stripes who attended religious services regularly tended to vote Republican far more often than they voted Democratic. His findings among Jewish voters was not as lopsided as that among Christian voters but still the Jewish vote was split down the middle between GOP and Democrat voters. That split is still an amazing new trend in the Jewish community. In fact, George Bush made advances in every Jewish voter category to one degree or another.
Of course, many in the chattering classes on the left have been yelping about the evil "religious right" dominating the Republican Party for a decade now. But they must have been taken aback by this rise in GOP voters among the left's favorite and most reliable voting block, the US Jewish population.
It is becoming clear that Americans who have a strong religious belief, just about any religious belief, are turning to the Republican Party in greater numbers every year. And several conclusions can be drawn from this statistic.
Religions are generally family oriented. Religions have well structured moral tenets, they know what is right and what is wrong (within their own moral codes). Religions are stable in ideology and steady in deliberation. Religions are steeped in tradition and mindful of historical precedent. Religions also place an emphasis on duty, honesty and self-reliance. The Religious are voters with quintessentially American ideal.
Whereas, over the last 70 years, the bedrock of American citizenry among the religious have voted for the "Party of the people," the Democratic Party, these people are now voting Republican far more often than their former allegiance. This is a sea change in US voter trends. So, it makes one wonder what has changed?
Have American ideals or principles changed? Have those of the GOP radically changed? Or have those of the Democrats changed? No to the first, and yes to the later two would be your answer.
Americans have not changed very much in their basic principles except to tend toward a more even distribution of those ideals and expectations upon more categories of Americans than was extant in past decades. But, both political parties have changed and quite radically, too. The Republicans have evolved from a Party strictly representing the Business Community, and little else, to that of representing the people whereas the Democrats have drifted far away from representing the average American citizen and become a Party of dispirit fringe interests. The Republican's sea change is the only one that has tended toward the current and historical ideas and principles of the average American voter and that is why they are enlarging their voter base every year and why the Democrats, tending to represent radical, fringe groups are losing theirs.
Consequently, religious Americans are increasingly finding themselves uncomfortable and unwelcome among the lunatic fringe in the Democratic Party and Democratic pollster Mellman has proved this true once again.
In light of these facts the question becomes, just what kind of America does the Democratic Party want to see promoted? One which the average citizen has voted to support since time immemorial, or one that is radically different, one pushed by the kinds of extremist, fringe groups that Americans have rejected for over 200 years?
Even Democratic pollster Mellman seems to be confirming that the Democratic party is increasingly out of the mainstream in answer to that question.
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Well yeah, John Kerry wanted to give a nation demanding Israel's extermination, Iran, nuclear weapons. Any Jewish person voting against Bush was not very well informed. Or pretty damned stupid. Of course, that statement could pertain to anyone who voted for that a$$.
The increasing anti-Semitism amongst the Dems will continue to accelerate the departure of Jews from the Dems, which will lead to more anti-Semitism, which will lead to more departures, etc.
We are middle America. The only reason we look far right to the DemocRATS is that they are literally falling off the left edge of the political spectrum.
Keyword PRACTICING. The secular Jews are heavily leftist.
... as are non-practicing Catholics and many Christians. Don't mean to generalize, I'm just commenting on the article.
On 9-11 the left fully realized the hatred of radical islam towards America, and so decided to align themselves with them. This hatred includes Israel, so Israel, too must be opposed by the left. In this light, why would any religious Jew vote democrat?
Nothing at all wrong with ACCURATE generalizations such as yours.
What is amusing about this is the left's contention that the right wants to exterminate Jews. We don't but their islam buddies do.
Yes. And the other half worship liberalism, socialism and stupidism.
Of course, many in the chattering classes on the left have been yelping about the evil "religious right" dominating the Republican Party for a decade now. But they must have been taken aback by this rise in GOP voters among the left's favorite and most reliable voting block, the US Jewish population.
My sentiments exactly. I will never understand how anyone could have voted for this empty suit and then gone home to look at themselves in the mirror. They'd have to have viewed a donkey's rear end. I honestly can't say which Democrat candidate was more transparently phony - Gore or Kerry......or the Clintons, for that matter. They were also as false as they come.
What they don't get is that the rising, deliberate anti-semitism of the radical liberal left also includes THEM! They're Jews, too. The best interests of secular Jews are NOT being served by pro-Arab, pro-PLO liberal Democrats any more than the interests of the black voting block are.
Joe Lieberman seems to be the only liberal Dem who understands what is at stake. Like Zell Miller, Lieberman should bolt that party and come over onto our side. Both of them would be welcomed with open arms.........unlike Jumpin' Jim Jeffords who bolted into "neverland."
It is amazing that people who go to church and are, therefore, interested in morals as an important issue vote Republican, isn't it?
The Dems have no morals. They are the kings of situational ethics.
If one half of practicing Jews voted (R) then does that mean that at least 60% of Jews are non-practicing if one surmises that all Jews who voted (R) were practicing?
sounds curious especially given that at least some of the Jews who voted (R) had to be non-practicing and then the total number of Jews who are non-practicing would be even higher.
I've known scores of Jews from around the world and while I think they practice less than say Southern Baptists, I don't think that only 1 in 4 or so Jews practices. All I have known at least celebrated holy days and even knew what Purim was.
These sheeple believe the ignorant statements these traitorous scuzz spout. They not only are able to face themselves, they actually put their mugs on polaroids saying how sorry they were. Stupid is as stupid does.
Brilliant construction there, Mobile Vulgus! "..kings of situational ethics!" Superb! Outstanding comment!
Char :)
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