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Jews Continue To Flee Democratic Party
Daily Caller ^ | 1/8/14 | BLAKE NEFF

Posted on 01/08/2015 12:33:16 PM PST by Impala64ssa

The exodus of Jewish Americans from the Democratic Party continued in 2014, with only 61 percent of Jews identifying with the party last year, according to a new poll released Tuesday by Gallup.

Sixty-one percent may seem high, compared to 31 percent of the general public who identify as Democrats, but that’s a 3 percent dip from 2013, and a huge drop from 2008, when 71 percent of Jews said they were Democrats.

The Democrats’ loss is the GOP’s gain. In 2014, 29 percent of Jews said they were Republicans, up 1 percent from 2013 and a 7 percent rise from 2008.

The changing attitudes of Jews don’t simply reflect shifts in the American electorate since 2008, as their shift towards Republicans and away from Democrats substantially outpaces any movements by America at large.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; flee; jewishpinglist; jewishvote; trends
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To: Jewbacca
They don't make Jews like Jesus anymore.

Unfortunately, the biggest supporters of Israel in the US seem to be Conservative Protestant Christians. This is not to say that CPCs should not support Israel but they shouldn't be out there all alone.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

21 posted on 01/08/2015 12:48:32 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: nascarnation
Those are 104 evs the Dems don’t have to spend a dime to get.

Excellent point. Even more when you factor in the other NE states.

22 posted on 01/08/2015 12:48:47 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Jewbacca

It isn’t tradition, it is because they vote for the liberal politics that they prefer.


23 posted on 01/08/2015 12:51:43 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Its about time.


24 posted on 01/08/2015 12:51:55 PM PST by Maelstorm ("I would rather die standing than to live on my knees" Stephane Charbonnier cartoonist Charlie Hedbo)
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To: Impala64ssa

Rand Paul is trying to get back support from Jewish voters, but never trust a Paul.


25 posted on 01/08/2015 12:52:27 PM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: gorush

“I am also completely unable to understand the historic animosity against the Jews.”

The whole Jesus thing might have something to do with it. Plus


26 posted on 01/08/2015 12:54:16 PM PST by sagar
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Voting Democrat is passed on from generation to generation.

No it isn't, people don't vote for a party for a 150 years because they don't pick up a newspaper or look at that election's issues, especially Jews, they are not some mountain folk of 1870 living without information on exactly what they are voting for.

27 posted on 01/08/2015 12:56:13 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Jews Continue To Flee Democratic Party

Why not? Since the GOP is now a socialist party, they have an alternative.

28 posted on 01/08/2015 12:57:13 PM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Impala64ssa

Hopefully, this will continue.

I have always held the Jews in highest regard except for one very large concern...their seemingly idiotic propensity to circle the flame of liberalism.

With obvious results.


29 posted on 01/08/2015 12:57:20 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: jmacusa

To be serious for a bit, I am Israeli by birth, American by happy accident.

Dual citizens like myself and/or ex-pats in Israel vote 85%+ Republican — so much so that Florida routinely tries to keep the absentee votes from Israel out.

The reasons are multiple:

Tradition is one.

But mainly I think American Jewish people are urban Yankees. And Urban Yankees vote Democrat.

There are other factors:

strident Christianity is bothersome to Reform Jews (and the Huckabee types make me want to puke),

the Republican party used to be very anti-Semitic and not particularly fond of Israel. “White Shoe Republicans” like James Baker, for example.

And Jews are descendants of an enslaved and persecuted people. We tend to identify with those in similar situations -— blacks of the last century, for example.

The concept of “tikum olam” makes Jewish people suckers for big ideas

And then there is history: the “Right” in Europe and especially Russia/Ukraine was violently anti-Semitic. The Communists, while in reality just as bad, promised good things and the end of persecution. Those fears came with immigrants over the ocean.

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But, yes, I see the tide shifting significantly. Orthodox Jewish people are overwhelmingly Republican. Conservative majority Republican. The ideas will trickle down and into Jewish culture.


30 posted on 01/08/2015 12:57:32 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Jewbacca

“We’re even in your country clubs and marrying white women.”

Heh!

Short and sweet.

Love it.


31 posted on 01/08/2015 12:58:08 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Impala64ssa

best news I’ve heard all day


32 posted on 01/08/2015 1:00:25 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Impala64ssa

It’s tough to vote for a party where anti-semitism is spawned and supported. Especially when Obama has brought to office everything Rev Wright taught him.


33 posted on 01/08/2015 1:00:26 PM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Speak as a full-blooded Jew, I can say that Jews may leave the Democrats, but they will bring their leftist worldview with them to the Republican Party, making it even more liberal.


34 posted on 01/08/2015 1:00:33 PM PST by Maceman
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To: sagar
The whole Jesus thing might have something to do with it. Plus

The anti-jewish animosity appears to predate that. "Plus" what?

35 posted on 01/08/2015 1:00:45 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Impala64ssa

Nice car

But I don’t buy it

If Jews in media and Hollywood flipped

It would turn the tide in the culture war

I just don’t see it

The scores of libtard Jews I known in 57 years...some of the felines I was actually in relationship with

Most when pushed....simply do not like adherent Christianity

More than anything....Israelis less so than US Jews

Their religion is to change world...loosely Tikkun Olam

You’d have to fundamentally change Jewish culture top to bottom

But God bless you for trying


36 posted on 01/08/2015 1:02:13 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: Impala64ssa

it is amazing !!!
that a people
who’ve contributed SO MUCH
to our history, to our Church(es), to our morals, to our traditions, to our sciences, to our medicine and health, to our arts, to our literature and cinema, to our technology...

can have so many IGNORAMOUSES
when it comes to simply recognizing
when a politician or political party
is your enemy.

amazing just how STUPID such incredibly smart and creative people can be, when it comes to their own survival


37 posted on 01/08/2015 1:02:38 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sooo,
Instead of what 88 percent of American Jews voting Dem,
86 percent will?


38 posted on 01/08/2015 1:04:01 PM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: Impala64ssa
I've been reading about the alleged political “Exodus” of American Jews from the Democrat Party for the last 50 years.

Sorry, I don't believe it.

A significant majority of American Jews despise white American Conservatives, even though we are the least anti-Semitic - and most pro-Israel - political group in the world.

39 posted on 01/08/2015 1:06:09 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Jewbacca

And that’s a good thing. Some funny ones I’ll have to check later.


40 posted on 01/08/2015 1:07:49 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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