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To: Skywatcher who wrote (4880)10/24/2008 3:48:35 PM
From: jlallen1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6579
 
Like the bums who made up the story about McCain people calling for people to kill Obambi?



To: Skywatcher who wrote (4880)10/24/2008 5:37:27 PM
From: puborectalis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6579
 




Last update - 11:54 24/10/2008


New Gallup poll shows 75% of U.S. Jews plan to vote Obama

By Haaretz Service

Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. elections

A new poll released by the Gallup organization on Thursday shows Jewish voters favor Barack Obama over John McCain by more than 3 to 1, with 74% saying they will vote for Obama over 22% for McCain.

The poll, which has interviewed over 650 Jewish registered voters each month since June, shows American Jews growing increasingly comfortable with Obama since July, when the Illinois Senator tied up the Democratic Party nomination. The poll shows support for McCain among Jews stood at a high of 34% in June, before beginning its downward turn in July after Obama's nomination.

The highest level of support for Obama according to the poll is among Jews over the age of 55, 74% of which have said they're voting for Obama over 67% of Jews 18 to 34. The Gallup organization says the disparity could be based on a greater inclination among Jews 18 to 34 to call themselves Conservative, but says a similar inclination isn't apparent among Jews aged 35 to 54, 68% of which polled by Gallup have said they're voting Obama.
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The poll's findings show that in spite of a certain measure of trepidation among some Jewish voters towards Obama early in his campaign, he is set to receive the same percentage of the Jewish vote (74%) as John Kerry in 2004, and only slightly less than the 80% of the Jewish vote that Al Gore received in 2000 when he had a Jewish running mate in Joe Lieberman.

Earlier in October, a poll commissioned by researchers at New York University revealed that American Jews favor Obama over McCain by a 67 - 33 percent margin.

The survey, which sampled the opinions of over 3,000 respondents - half of them being Jewish - also found that Jews as an ethnic group will support Obama by almost 30 percent more than other white, non-Hispanic voters.

The poll sought to gauge the importance Jewish voters attach to Israel as a consideration in whom they would vote for, with some surprising results. Of all the Jews surveyed who said that Israel is of "high" importance, 63 percent said they would vote for Obama. In contrast, only 42 percent of Jews who said Israel has "very high" importance said they planned to vote for Obama.

Not surprisingly, the Jewish vote swings heavily in McCain's favor among the Orthodox. According to the survey, the Arizona senator can count on support from 75 percent of Orthodox Jewish voters.






To: Skywatcher who wrote (4880)10/24/2008 9:50:54 PM
From: Dan B.  Respond to of 6579
 
I sense a biased writer. Had to purposefully not mention that last night Palin said clothes go to charity.

Dan B.



To: Skywatcher who wrote (4880)10/25/2008 12:00:23 AM
From: Dan B.  Respond to of 6579
 
Yeah Yeah, I posted to the wrong article, my bad. But then, your post didn't have anything to do with my post, either. I guess were even.

Dan B.