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It confuses me why there is such a large Jewish voting bloc that always votes straight line blue.
http://time.com/4839592/anti-semitism-lg…
It confuses me why there is such a large Jewish voting bloc that always votes straight line blue.
http://time.com/4839592/anti-semitism-lg…
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Your statement is not even close to being true. Fruitcup's facts are straight.
If you know any US history it's not hard to see why American Jews vote Blue. Historically Jews were excluded from the very country clubs, law schools, med schools, etc that existed as seats of power for Christian white men. Jews were actively excluded from Christian white Civic life and often formed close relationships with other urban communities like blacks and Hispanics.
Democratic candidates are expected to make blanket pro Israel statements every Presidential election or face losing the Jewish vote, which can easily sink any Democratic Presidential campaign.
I guess I was wrong about that but I remember sentiment amongst folks in my synagogue being for McCain because of Obama’s embrace of the Reverend Wright but I agree Jewish organizations have a liberal bent, true but still 2.5 million Jews among over 300 million Americans hardly makes up a large voting bloc, less than 2% of the population overall.
Israel and the Middle East is a potential wedge issue for Democrats, as the far left and American Jews have polar opposite opinions. However working class whites have been skewing isolationist, so it's a tough issue fir Republicans to score tons of points on.
That's mostly the old-guard that knew Cuba pre-Castro - it's more evenly split these days - plus Cubans AFAIK are kinda the exception within the much larger Latino population
Yes, the more removed the generations get from experiencing the communist regime the more they believe the promise of all being provided for equally and being coddled from cradle to grave. They don't have the same experience to realize the BS is just that
However, yeah, the establishment of Israel was based on genocide, displacement, etc. Zionism ironically went from a valid call for protecting Jews to being a world menace.
SJG
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About 75% of Asians and Jews vote Democratic. Neither group needs to be "coddled." If you go by race, Asians have the highest household income in the US. If you go by ancestry, Indians (south Asian), and Jews take 1st and 2nd place. Asians make up 23% of the student body at Harvard and they are suing (for good reason) about discrimination and racial quotas.
Democrats care about healthcare, education, and gun violence, in that order. It has nothing to do with being coddled.
2. You are delusional if you think the Democrats are altruistic and place the importance of their platform in that order.
They are first about having power and second about how to get and keep that power. Their main priority is to have the affluent pay more to fuel the entitlement programs that they promise to the less fortunate.
3. Sphincter
Pretending that certain issues benefit some minorities more than the majority is just a marketing strategy. Its about thinking that in some swing states or precincts, pretending to pander to minorities will give the party in question that slight advantage in elections.
It has nothing to do with actual concern or real social or economic issues. If either party really gave a fuck, the same problems wouldn't keep popping up in every election for the last few decades.
It's the same way with Chinese. The old Chinese hate the mainland Chinese government while the young Chinese don't care.
There are more registered Democrats than Republicans so it may be that even the majority whites lean pro Democrat.
I'm not going to look it up to verify though.