[shrinkermd]

But the question is not what but why? Why this overwhelming anti-conservative Jewish vote?

[ripley]

"but the question is not what buty why. why this overwhelming anti-conservative jewish vote?"

there are "secular" jews and "religious" jews. (for the life of me, i can't understand what a "secular" jew is; either you're jewish or you're not.)

seems that maybe lots of "secular" jews have been elected; that doesn't mean that more jews have been elected.

[RKV]

FIRE RETARDANT SUIT ON. Q:Why this overwhelming anti-conservative Jewish vote? A: Many jews hate (irrationally I might add) observant Christians. The religious right is identified with the Republican Party, therefore they vote for the Democrats. That the religious left (and there is one) attaches itself to the Democrats has been ignored. They are "getting even" for the pogroms and the Inquisition. They really don't like the idea that folks who are not "of the Chosen People" can latch onto their god.

[only1percent]

For the same reason that Asians voted overwhelmingly Democrat in 2006: it's not not that they don't like conservatives, it's that they hate jocks and rednecks.

Bush and a lot of the Southern and Western Republicans put on this gleefully anti-intellectual attitude that reminds a lot of assimilated Asian and Jewish voters of every last big jock they despised, and swore to beat in the long run, when they were kids. And for the Asians who immigrated adults, Bush is a figure who is beyond laughable; they think it's contemptible, really, that Americans would allow themselves to be governed by one whom they see as so mentally sub-par.

Asian and Jewish conservatives -- and there are lots -- take absolutely endless guff about Bush and the crew. Imagine being the biggest Yankees fan in Boston -- like that.

But let us have a Giuliani or a Romney on the ballot, and things might change...