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The Jerusalem Post
May 9, 2008 2:09 | Updated May 10, 2008 22:58
Poll: Most Jewish voters want Obama to win
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, WA****NGTON
WA****NGTON - A new Gallup survey found that 61% of Jewish voters prefer
Obama to McCain, who got 32% of the Jewish sup****t.
That number is far greater than the rate found for the general population,
who only preferred Obama to McCain 45-43, according to the poll. Obama
also
still trails Clinton in Jewish sup****t, according to the survey, with
Clinton winning against Obama in the Jewish community 50%-43%.
Though the results showed Obama is favored by the Jewish community, the
Republican Jewish Coalition pounced on them to attack Obama.
"In 2004, John Kerry received 75% of the Jewish vote and George W. Bush
received 25%. The recent polling numbers demonstrate Obama's weakness
among
Jewish voters. This data comes on the heels of the exit poll data from the
Democratic primary in Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton beat Obama among
Jewish
voters 62%-38%," said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.
But the Obama campaign dismissed his comments, with one adviser calling
it,
"a desperate attempt to squeeze one drop of lemonade out of a mountain of
lemons."
Both candidates released statements honoring Israel's 60th birthday. While
Clinton, down in delegates and running out of op****tunities to pull off a
come-from-behind victory, campaigned in upcoming primary states Thursday,
Obama was expected to make remarks at the Israel's Wa****ngton embassy
Independence Day celebration. US Vice President Dick Cheney was the
scheduled keynote speaker.
Ahead of the embassy event, The Israel Project presented poll findings
showing record sup****t for Israel, with 71% of those surveyed saying
America
should sup****t Israel in contrast to only 8% for Palestinians, with 14%
saying they were uncertain. That's an overwhelming leap from 2002, when
just
24% agreed with that sentiment. Though only 2% thought America should
sup****t the Palestinian side of the conflict, back then 68% of respondents
said neither should be sup****ted or that they didn't know which side to
back.
Americans sup****ters of McCain back Israel in higher numbers than those
sup****ting either of his two Democratic competitors, Obama and Clinton,
whose sup****ters back Israel by similar amounts, according to the survey.
While 78% of McCain voters said they favored Israel as opposed to only 4%
who chose the Palestinians, those who backed Obama for president favored
Israel over the Palestinians 46%-14%. When matched up with Clinton, McCain
voters backed Israel versus the Palestinians 77%-6%, while Clinton's
voters
broke down 48%-12%.
The numbers are reflective of the stronger sup****t of Republicans
generally
for Israel found by the poll, which prominent pollsters Stanley Greenberg,
a
Democrat, and Neil Newhouse, a Republican, conducted of 800 voters in
March
on behalf of The Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy organization.
Greenberg attributed the greater amount of Republican sup****t for Israel
to
the influence of the years of US President George W. Bush's strong backing
of the Jewish state, the growing pool of religious conservatives who are
increasingly attentive to Israel's centrality in their religion, and the
sense of a shared security threat from Islamic terrorism.
The pollsters added that while sup****t for Israel between adherents of the
two parties had once been relatively even, it wasn't that Democratic
numbers
came down over the years but that Republican numbers have gone up.
The version of the poll that was released did not show the breakdown in
intensity of sup****t between respondents belonging to the two parties.
While Republicans and Democrats both overwhelmingly favored Israel's use
of
checkpoints (Republicans at 87% and Democrats at 72%), on the topic of
Jerusalem, Republicans wanted the city to remain united by 72%-18%, while
Democrats split 47%-30%.
A similarly sharp distinction arose concerning Israel's obligation to
provide Gaza with humanitarian services despite the territory being
controlled by an entity, Hamas, that wants to destroy Israel. Forty-eight
percent of Democrats thought Israel was obliged to provide this assistance
and 37% said it was not, almost the opposite of Republicans, of whom only
34% felt Israel was obliged to provide help and 58% felt it was not.
When it came to the candidates, McCain's sup****ters placed the issue of
terrorism much higher on their list of priorities than Democratic voters
did. Thirty-eight percent of his backers named it as one of the two top
challenges America faces, while only 6% and 5% of Obama and Clinton
sup****ters, respectively, did.
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