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J-GOP on Monday, February 11, 2008 3:20:47 PM
Since 1992, the percentage of Jews that have voted Republican has steadily increased. According to the Republican Jewish Coalition, approximately 11% of the Jewish vote went Republican in 1992, increasing to around 25% in 2004. In fact, Larry Greenfield, director of the 3,000-member strong Republican Jewish Coalition of Southern California, believes that the Jewish vote in 2004 was closer to 30 percent for Bush.
In addition, from the political pundit, The Politico, during the the 2006 Congressional election, the Republican Jewish vote held steady at 26.4 percent, according to exit polls that were conducted at that time. From their research, Jews under age 55 were more likely to vote GOP -- 30.7 percent -- compared with 23.8 percent support from voters over 55.
But the left keeps on denying this obvious trend, and instead holds onto wishful thinking that this is merely a strange anomaly. From their perspective, only real Jews vote for Democrats. Reporter Shmuel Rosner from Israel's left-leaning Haaretz newpaper, believes that the increasing trend for Jews to vote Republican is more of a myth than a reality. In his words, the most recent Presidential primaries serve as a better barometer:
In New York, they (Republicans) make up 4 percent of the voters (Jewish Democrats are 16 percent). In California it's 2%. In New Jersey, 3 percent of the total Jewish vote (Democrats 9 percent) are Republicans. In Massachusetts, the number is also 3 percent (6 percent for Jewish Democrats). We had similar percentage in Florida (3 percent). Exit polls don't deal with such small numbers of voters, so we do not know who they voted for. But we know they could barely make a difference.
So who's right here? The data compiled by the RJC spans over 16 years on a national basis, while the data compiled by Haaretz's Rosner is a snapshot taken during the most recent primaries held in heavily Jewish-populated blue states. Is this a trend? Are an increasing number of Jews that previously voted for a Republican so fed up with the Bush Administration that they will now vote for a Democrat in 2008?
Let's get real here. It's hard to imagine that any Jewish voter that previously voted Republican would now go back to vote for a Democrat. Instead of being smaller, it's highly likely that the Jewish vote in 2008 will be even greater than the 25-30 percent range in 2004.
But even a brain-washed simpleton knows when they're being handed a skewed report as this one clearly is from Haaretz. Then again, for liberal Kool-Aid drinkers, maybe not.