AMERICAN JEWS VOTE FOR....

Beinhart’s polls of American Jews:

• An October 2008 poll by Steven M. Cohen, Sam Abrams, and Judith Veinstein found that only 15 percent of American Jews ranked Israel as one of their three top voting issues.

• This March, when the American Jewish Committee asked American Jews what most influences their presidential vote, only 6 percent answered “Israel,” with another 4 percent citing “Iran’s nuclear program.”

• So what do American Jews vote on? The economy, of course. According to the AJC poll, it registered almost five times the number of first-place votes as did Israel.

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Romney's conundrum: Loved in Israel, hated by Jews
Genie at The World We Swim InWednesday, August 15, 2012