Jews on Obama

Read the latest poll of Jewish Americans regarding their support for the anti-Zionist Barack Obama.

From Israel Matzav:


Liberal Jewish poll shows Obama's Jewish support down to 59%


A poll by the liberal Jewish Workman's Circle shows that American Jews are still far more liberal than their non-Jewish neighbors, and that they are still going to vote for President Obama at much higher rates than their non-Jewish neighbors. But the poll also shows that President Obama is bleeding Jewish votes, and those votes may be enough to throw theelection. Jonathan Tobin reports.

The poll showed American Jews are far more liberal than most Americans. They are willing to pay higher taxes, don’t seem to like financial institutions, love unions and favor abortion and gay marriage in numbers that far outstrip the rest of the country. The respondents also give President Obama a big majority at a time when national polls are calling the presidential election a dead heat.

But despite the effort of the poll’s left-wing sponsor to treat this as a victory for the incumbent, it actually confirms the fact that the president is bleeding Jewish support this year and appears to be falling far short of the share of the community’s vote that he won in 2008. With the poll showing him getting only 59 percent of the Jewish vote as opposed to the 78 percent he received four years ago, there is no disguising a drastic decline in support for the Democrat.

The Workmen’s Circle attempts to soften the blow by saying if undecided voters broke down the same way decided voters did, it would give Obama a 68 to 32 percent lead among Jews. But that’s an absurd assertion. History shows us there is no reason to believe that is the way undecided voters actually vote. If anything, it is more likely that in a close race, undecideds are more likely to break toward the challenger, but that is merely a guess. But even if that wildly optimistic supposition were to be borne out, it would still represent a ten percent drop in the Jewish vote for Obama–a result that would have to be treated as a blow to the Democrats and a minor success for Republicans.

If, however, the final results turn out to be closer to the 59 percent figure, Obama would receive the lowest percentage of the Jewish vote in a presidential election of any Democrat since Jimmy Carter.

Read the whole thing. I suspect a lot of Jews would have been a lot happier if someone within the Democratic party had challenged President Obama.