Poll: Obama has Lost Almost Half of his US Jewish Support

[briann]

United States President Barack Obama has lost nearly half of his support among American Jews, a poll by the McLaughlin Group has shown.

The US Jews polled were asked whether they would: (a) vote to re-elect Obama, or (b) consider voting for someone else. 42% said they would vote for Obama and 46%, a plurality, preferred the second answer. 12% said they did not know or refused to answer.   


In the Presidential elections of 2008, 78% of Jewish voters, or close to 8 out of 10, chose Obama. The McLaughlin poll held nearly 18 months later, in April 2010, appears to show that support is down to around 4 out of 10.

The poll showed that key voter segments including Orthodox/Hassidic voters, Conservative voters, voters who have friends and family in Israel and those who have been to Israel, are all more likely to consider voting for someone other than Obama.

Among Orthodox/Hassidic voters, 69% marked 'someone else' vs. 17% who marked 're-elect.' Among Conservative-affiliated voters the proportion was 50% to 38%. Among Reform Jews, a slim majority of 52% still supported Obama while 36% indicated they would consider someone else. Among Jews with family in Israel and those who had been to Israel, about 50% said they would consider someone else, while 41%-42% supported Obama.

Fifty percent of the Jewish voters polled said they approved of the job Obama is doing handling US relations with Israel. Thirty-nine percent said they disapproved. “This rating is not good for a group of voters who are 59% Democratic to only 16% Republican,” the poll's analysis noted.

A majority of 52% said they disapproved of the idea of the Obama Administration supporting a plan to recognize a Palestinian state within two years. 62% said that if given a state, “the Palestinians would continue their campaign of terror to destroy Israel.” Only 19% thought they would live peacefully with Israel.   

As Obama loses support among members of the influential Jewish voter bloc, possible Republican candidate Sarah Palin seems to be doing her best to woo them to her camp. At Time Magazine’s May 4 dinner honoring the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World,’ she was sporting a US/Israel flag pin. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

[TheCoon]

Oh Reform Jews... will they ever learn?

[syyuge]

It's better to be late than never.

[Spiraling Leopard]

I don't think that shameless wigger cares.

[TheCoon]

I'm curious how someone can be an Orthodox Jew and vote for Obama, or any democrat for that matter. I would think Orthodox Jews have the most stringent religious doctrine that is opposed to liberalism.

[New Yorker]

A REAL Jew by definition, can only be Conservative politically/socially, and a Zionist.

[Rubystars]

Human beings are well-known for their ability to compartmentalize, but this is really nuts, that over half still apparently support Obama.

[White Israelite]

It's better to be late than never.

In this case, they are too late.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Oh give me a break. Most American Jews would vote for Jeremiah Wright if he were running against a conservative Republican.

[TheCoon]

Human beings are well-known for their ability to compartmentalize, but this is really nuts, that over half still apparently support Obama.

Liberal Jews are as safe a bet to vote democrat as blacks or muslims are.

[cjd]

Oh give me a break. Most American Jews would vote for Jeremiah Wright if he were running against a conservative Republican.

I would not say most but I would say more then should.... I makes me sad to see this in a way because intelligent people should not be going into the election booth and voting for liberal politicians who for the most part are stabbing their constituency in the back.

[briann]

This is still far from what it should be.  Osama has proven that he thinks Jews building in their anscestral homeland is worse than Iran building nuclear bombs.  What kind of yehudon would support him after that?  I'm even surprised to see 17% of Orthodox Jews wanted to re-elect Osama, even that seems high.

well said.

[Ben m]

yes,maybe i should change my largely negative view of us jewry.they just now proved that apart from chaim and kahane not all of them are leftists.