Posted on 07/05/2011 6:25:03 AM PDT by markomalley
Thanks. Here’s a related post from today.
OBAMA LOSING JEWISH VOTERS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2744834/posts
andy58-in-nh is correct about the unreliability of a 512 person "national" sample. The Presidential exit polls are comprised of over 17,000 respondents. In most results, you will find the Jewish results unlisted due to statistical insignificance, even in states like California, Illinois, even New York and Florida. If you have access to datasets with Congressional district info, the network sites like CNN seem to have pulled much of this, you'll find some results if you look to the urban areas with large Jewish populations. Of course you may also find results not much different than the general voting pattern of the district. Were the GOP interested in these voted, they'd be smart to find a formula to win over the liberal urban populations of the northeast, the Jewish vote would come right along.
The technique of tallying locally collected insignificant statistics to arrive at a "significant" statistic relative to the larger (national) group is highly suspect.
Self identified Jews, those who respond "Jewish" to the question of religion when asked are between 1.3% and 1.4% of the population. The National Jewish Population Survey gets to the 2% to 2.2% number by asking follow up questions to the self identified non-Jew, as to the Jewishness of family members or spouse. Which can get you counted as a Jew. As can having a personal relationship with Jesus/Jesus was a Jew.
Thanks justiceseeker93. Anecdotally, Zero’s had a pretty good week; this is simply based on what I overheard the great unwashed masses discussing amongst themselves. His support is as low as it’s likely to get. All he needs is a another theater of war to bring it all together. That theater will be Iran.
Doubt it. He's certainly going to go easy on a mullah state unless perhaps Iran directly attacks American interests. He's dawdled with Iran his entire time in office.
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