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Wow! Talk about painting a group of people with a broad brush!

I don’t recall my ballot asking my race, or religion, did yours?

I don’t recall answering any of those types of questions when I registered to vote, did you?

So how does the author derive a figure of 57% of Jewish voters as voting for Obama without noting that 43% did not?

Why doesn’t he cite figures for Jewish registered voters who didn’t vote at all?

The fact of the matter is, he has NO way of knowing any of the information he spouts off.

Furthermore, if the article’s author had even an inkling of Jewish history, he’d be able to answer his own question of why some Jews are liberals, but he’d also ask why some Blacks and Hispanics, Asians, Indians, Irish, French, German etc. are conservative.

What I see is a poorly written hit piece, devoid of truth.

Data like this comes from polling companies. In principle the data could be quite valid. One of the few humanities courses I took as an engineering student was political science and among other things it studied polling. Statistical science asserts that if a truly random sample of people is evaluated fairly, within a very narrow margin of error they will represent the whole. Good polling goes to almost absurd lengths to make its sampling scientific and it can take weeks or months. Weekend flash polls, of course, don’t do that.

Shhhhh... don’t interrupt the ritual Jew-baiting.

Which is yet another reason Jewish people are turned off by conservatives.

Jewish people are slowly (too slowly) trending conservative. I often wonder if stupid threads like this are posted by trolls (or used by trolls) to keep Jews on the Democrat Plantation by bringing out all the cretins.

Wow! Talk about painting a group of people with a broad brush!

DITTO!

I don’t recall my ballot asking my race, or religion, did yours?

DITTO!

I don’t recall answering any of those types of questions when I registered to vote, did you?

DITTO!

So how does the author derive a figure of 57% of Jewish voters as voting for Obama without noting that 43% did not?

DITTO!

Why doesn’t he cite figures for Jewish registered voters who didn’t vote at all?

DITTO!

The fact of the matter is, he has NO way of knowing any of the information he spouts off.

DITTO!

Furthermore, if the article’s author had even an inkling of Jewish history, he’d be able to answer his own question of why some Jews are liberals, but he’d also ask why some Blacks and Hispanics, Asians, Indians, Irish, French, German etc. are conservative.

DITTO!

What I see is a poorly written hit piece, devoid of truth.

All of the projection is disturbing to read amongst many of the posters. Maybe these enlightened theoreticians on all things political with the Jewish people should poll the members here. I think they would be uncomfortable with the overrepresentation of FR posters within this very tiny religious minority group.

So how does the author derive a figure of 57% of Jewish voters as voting for Obama without noting that 43% did not?

DITTO!

It's 78%, not 57%. The first sentence:

One of the most extraordinary features of Barack Obama's victory over John McCain was his capture of 78% of the Jewish vote.

So how does the author derive a figure of 57% of Jewish voters as voting for Obama without noting that 43% did not?

Related to the correction you recieved in post 89, you would have to go back to 1920 to see a republican getting 43% of the Jewish vote.

In 1920 Harding got 43% of the Jewish vote and Eugene Debs of the Socialist party received 38% of the Jewish vote, the democrats got the rest of it.