By Ami Eden on Jul 8, 2008 in Barack Obama, Featured, John McCain, Presidential Race, polls | 0 Comments |
Gallup has new poll data out showing that “religious intensity predicts support for McCain.” Jews are no exception — except that they are.
Only 39% of U.S. Jews report that religion is important in their daily lives, well below the overall national average. Among this smaller group of religious Jews, however, Obama and McCain break even, 45% to 45%. This compares to Obama’s 68% to 26% lead among the majority of Jews for whom religion is not important.
So, yes, like in many other faith groups, Jews who value religion are more likely to back McCain than Jews who don’t. In fact, the gap between religious and non-religious is widest within the Jewish community (Obama won the latter group 68 percent to 26 percent).
At the same time, despite that wide gap, Obama does better with Jews who say religion is important (45%) than he does with white Catholics (37 percent) and white Protestants (27 percent) in that same category.
By Ami Eden on May 2, 2008 in Florida, Hillary Clinton, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Presidential Race | 4 Comments |
Ann Lewis touts Hillary Clinton’s performance among Jewish voters: Read the rest
By Ami Eden on Mar 12, 2008 in Eliot Spitzer, Featured, New York | 0 Comments |
Ben Harris reports on the warm feelings that Jewish groups have for NY Lt.-Gov David Paterson, the man who will be taking over for Eliot Spitzer (and, in case you missed it, yesterday Ron Kampeas wrote about the Israeli angle to the scandal).
Not sure where Spitzer was on the night of July 15, 2007, but you don’t have to worry about his replacement — Paterson was thrilled to death to be giving a speech to the women of Hadassah:
When I came in this evening, Carol thanked me for coming here this evening and said ‘I understand you cut your vacation short just to be here.’ And many of you might think that that was a real act of some kind of charity, it really wasn’t. You don’t understand. Lieutenant Governors never get invited to such national prestigious organizations as this. And as soon as I heard that, I was out of the Hamptons faster than Jon Corzine. I was here immediately.
Here’s a prescient passage from the talk:
After six months and 15 days I’ve come to this conclusion. You wake up at 6:30 in the morning and you call the governor’s mansion. If he answers, you can go back to sleep.
Many will come before you this week telling you how glad they are to be here but you know that I really am. As a matter of fact, I found out in my third month of duty that they actually have an organization known as the National Lieutenant Governor’s Association. We had a meeting in Washington DC. And I hesitated about going to a meeting with people who must have such morbid fantasies involving plane crashes and criminal convictions.
By Ami Eden on Feb 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, New York, Presidential Race, Super Tuesday | 0 Comments |
UPDATE: This post has been changed to reflect new numbers up at MSNBC.
MSNBC now has exit polling up about the Jewish vote in New York.
According to the polling, conducted by Edison/Mitofsky, Hillary Clinton took 69 65 percent of Jewish Democrats, compared to 29 33 percent for Barack Obama. That’s a wider gap than in Florida, where Clinton beat Obama 58 percent to 26 percent, with John Edwards pulling 13 percent.
In New York, Jews made up 17 16 percent of the Democratic electorate — about double the percentage of Jews in the Empire State’s overall population.
By Ami Eden on Feb 4, 2008 in New York, Presidential Race | 0 Comments |
Simcha Felder is now in Obama’s corner, but Clinton has plenty of Brooklyn backers to help her with the Orthodox vote.
