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The GOP’s Jewish Donors Are Abandoning Trump
FiveThirtyEight ^ | 9/21/16 | Titan Hersh Brian Schaffner

Posted on 09/21/2016 10:12:35 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

In recent years, Republicans have made inroads into the overwhelmingly Democratic constituency of American Jews. But this year, Republican Jews — or Jewish donors to the Republican party, at least — are abandoning their party’s nominee at a stunningly high rate.

In 2012, 71 percent of the $160 million that Jewish donors gave to the two major-party nominees went to President Obama’s re-election campaign; 29 percent went to Mitt Romney’s campaign, according to our analysis of campaign contributors, which used a predictive model to estimate which donors are Jewish based on their names and other characteristics. This ratio of support mirrors how Jewish voters cast their ballots in 2012.

So far in 2016, of all the money given to major-party candidates by donors who appear to be Jewish, 95 percent has gone to Hillary Clinton and just 5 percent has gone to Donald Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; altright; antitrump; bigotry; clinton; donors; elections; jewishdonors; jewishvote; jews; republicans; trump
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To: american colleen

ben just backed the wrong horse and now is too proud to admit it and back the other horse.


21 posted on 09/21/2016 11:09:27 PM PDT by uncitizen (JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
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To: Timpanagos1

Yeah, that’s not the word i was thinking.

Getting kind of sick of their bull ####.

If they were average income like everyone else it wouldn’t hurt but there are a lot of billionaires among the American Jewish population and their wealth to them should be a sign of how great capitalism is.

No. It seems like a way to use the wealth to attain one world govt or communism for thee and not for me.

If this was catholics donating by this percentage some here would already be out buying the crosses.

But we get “perplexing” here. How about the conservative Jews start putting hardcore pressure on these donators.

That’s a lot of ####ing money and it seems their wealthy seek to undermine the republic at every turn when it comes to voting and donations.

Great people with great, generous hearts but their agenda (which we have to assume by their donations) is horrifying.

I’ve told this before but my mom’s friend Ruthy, her husband took care of ALL of our teeth, five of us for years because pop was sick and we were dirt poor then!!

I knew as I got older that he was very liberal. Why? With a thriving and successful business, would he want to give a portion to those who do nothing. And he MUST have known he would make nothing if it was up to dems. This is 40 years ago, but these same principles still applied. How could since a kind man be so blind?

How can there be two groups of six million people who share the same religion yet are SO different in so many ways? I’m not counting Jews who live in myriad other countries. Israel and American Jews I am talking about.

Can Netanyahu talk to them at a meeting or something?

I’m only half kidding.

The HORRIFYING part is they’re one of the first to go in socialist or communist countries. And their money wont help them. It didn’t do any good in Germany except perhaps to have enough to get out.

They NEED to get back to the Torah bigtime.


22 posted on 09/21/2016 11:12:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: windsorknot

I just posted about a liberal communist Jewish guy I used to work with. At a different place of of employment, I worked with an orthodox Jew women that was from Israel. I told her how I wanted to visit Israel, etc. She went back for some family function and brought back the best gift ever for me, some sand from outside King Solomon mines! I still have it after all these years in a beautiful vase I bought for it.


23 posted on 09/21/2016 11:12:27 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: american colleen
"(Love Ben Shapiro a brilliant and articulate conservative but he self-important little opportunist who is rabidly Never Trump)"
24 posted on 09/21/2016 11:14:31 PM PDT by Pelham (DLM. Deplorable Lives Matter)
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To: Gargantua

Yes, I’ve seen those spending figures, but I was wondering if you have seen any ads on TV where you are located? I don’t really have a concept of how the money spent translates into actual number of TV ads. I have see many Trump ads on the internet, but none on TV. Again, being in CA, I really don’t expect to see any.


25 posted on 09/21/2016 11:22:54 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Timpanagos1
Jamie Glick - Twilight of American Jewry
26 posted on 09/21/2016 11:30:08 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Timpanagos1; wardaddy; Netz

In recent history (the last generation or two), liberal and moderate Jews’ main (stated) objection to the Republican party is that it’s turned too socially conservative, too “Christian” for them.

The strange thing about their aversion to Trump is that he does NOT fit that profile — he’s quite moderate on abortion and LGBTQWXYZ nonsense. And he keeps his faith very private. And his tax plan kicks azz for all taxpayers, across the board. And he seems to be pro-Israel and to have rational, realistic views about the Mid East.

So all that being the case, why their hostility to Trump? I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of it by questioning relatives and old friends and acquaintances, but haven’t received any satisfactory answers.

When I bring up Trump’s positions on the issues I listed above, they grudgingly concede the points and then mumble BS about him being tactless jerk and a loose cannon and uneducated about the issues and various idiotic PC pejoratives with “phobic” suffixes. Temperament and personality issues, mostly. Not so much policy. Many (but not all) even have no problem with the border wall or Muzzie immigration restrictions.

Bottom line: it’s still a conundrum. But relentless MSM brainwashing plays a big role, as do longstanding voting habits. They’re hard to break.


27 posted on 09/21/2016 11:40:21 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: Timpanagos1

Some jews are filthy globalist traitors ! We must face it !

Specially the wealthy jews . Don’t care about those GOP jew “donors”
This is an old story


28 posted on 09/21/2016 11:48:24 PM PDT by Ulysse (h)
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To: Timpanagos1

Curious, wasn’t it just yesterday we read Jewish VOTERS are turning to Trump?


29 posted on 09/21/2016 11:53:41 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Netz

It was just as anti-Semite under FDR.


30 posted on 09/21/2016 11:55:16 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Rusty0604

I say this as a Christian: Wear your necklace proudly.


31 posted on 09/21/2016 11:57:03 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: RitaOK
American “Jews” are not even *for* Israel, so why would they ever be *for* Republicans?

You got it.

32 posted on 09/21/2016 11:57:54 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: gubamyster

Over the past two weeks they’ve started playing on TV here in Central Massachusetts...I’m seeing a few every day now.


33 posted on 09/22/2016 12:02:29 AM PDT by Gargantua ("President Trump... nice ring to it..." ;^)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

As a fellow Christian, I do wear it occasionally as I am proud to be a little part Hebrew.


34 posted on 09/22/2016 12:10:10 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: dp0622

If I can be forgiven for inserting prophecy in here, returning to the Torah will not happen on any large scale until the Tribulation. That is in fact the reason for the Tribulation.


35 posted on 09/22/2016 12:10:21 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Timpanagos1

This may be just wishful thinking on their part.


36 posted on 09/22/2016 12:12:01 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Timpanagos1

It’s sad. I’m Jewish and conservative and understand what Trump is doing for us. Something I have prayed for.

My daughter goes to a new preschool in a synagogue and I am sure if I mentioned Around the school that I was for Trump it would be like saying I drink owl blood for breakfast. My extended family know I am conservative barely tolerate me.

I don’t know why many Jews don’t like Trump. He seems so NY Jewish in a way because he grew up among them. I hear the dumbest things that semi-intelligent people shouldn’t fall for, that he is a buffoon, a racist. He is not.


37 posted on 09/22/2016 12:15:13 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: firebrand

Great. More good news added.

I dont doubt you, so that news doesn’t make me feel any better.


38 posted on 09/22/2016 12:16:05 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: firebrand

Even Israel, which admire GREATLY as a country, has lost its way a little, with legal abortions and the first DWTS all female couple some years back.

But they’re light years ahead of American Jews, and heck, half of America, in holding to their religion and defending their values.


39 posted on 09/22/2016 12:18:23 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Netz

If one studies the Democrat party since the American Civil War, the fingerprints of Marxism are extremely evident. Why the attraction for Jews? I don’the understand.


40 posted on 09/22/2016 12:26:03 AM PDT by exnavy ( psalm 27: 4)
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