Poll Finds Many Jewish Voters Sticking With Democrats Despite Anti-Israel Displays From the Left
“American Jews are voting against their own self-interest in order to stay in the progressive club. You don’t need a political scientist to explain it, you need a psychiatrist.”
Professor Jacobson is quoted in this article and he makes a great point.
From the Washington Times:
Jewish voters stick with Democrat Harris despite left’s growing hostility toward Israel: Poll
Jewish Americans have long represented a faithful Democratic voting bloc, and the progressive wing’s unabashed antagonism toward Israel hasn’t changed that.
A Pew Research poll on the preferences of U.S. religious voters released this week found that 65% of Jewish respondents plan to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, while 34% back former President Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 presidential election.
The survey of 9,720 U.S. registered voters released this week found the candidates tied overall at 49% each…
Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson said that “you need a psychiatrist” to explain the ongoing Jewish support for Democratic candidates.
“There is a willing disregard by American Jews for the reality that the progressive left has teamed up with Islamists to create an intensely hostile environment in the U.S. and for Israel,” Mr. Jacobson told The Washington Times. “American Jews are voting against their own self-interest in order to stay in the progressive club. You don’t need a political scientist to explain it, you need a psychiatrist.”
He noted that the latest poll represents a decline in Jewish support for Democrats from 2020, when 77% of Jewish voters backed Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden over Mr. Trump, according to an exit poll by the left-wing group J Street.
“In 2020, Joe Biden received 77% of the Jewish vote, so the current Pew polling represents a 12% drop in support for Harris, which is significant,” said Mr. Jacobson, who runs the conservative Legal Insurrection blog. “Nonetheless, that almost 2 in 3 Jews support Democrats is a testament to the psychological grip Democrats have.”
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I think we’re seeing how it can indeed happen here. I believe German Jews were highly assimilated into German life. Perhaps many valued being German as highly as being Jews. Today, American Jews value being progressive more highly than anything else, and seem convinced that the hatred being expressed by the pro Palestine contingent couldn’t possibly apply to them. Not them!!!
I was just reading some criticisms of Hannah Adrecht, author of Eichman in Jerusalem. The critics say that she was of German Jewish heritage and thought they were superior to the Jews of Eastern Europe and Russia. If true, Wow, way to miss the point!
A very high percentage – easily the majority – of Jews are suicidal.
The “majority of Jews are suicidal”? So is that why the Holocaust occurred? Is that what you mean?
No, you stupid git, and you know it.
Then they are stupid beyond belief and don’t deserve my sympathy.
Polling showed Trump gaining with American Jews and at 50% prior to Tucker Carlson’s Holocaust denial defense of Hitler episode.
There aren’t enough Jews for it to matter outside of PA but exactly as I said even if you don’t care for any other reason you should care because Jews in PA could easily be the difference between winning and losing.
A mainstream right wing figure with a mega fanbase denying the Holocaust and not only not being ostracized and losing his audience but continuing to get major right wing figures on his show is rightly alienating to Jews.
This could have been the election cycle that saw Jews defect. Instead Joe Biden correctly denounced Tucker and did so alone.
Churchill was a great hero, and if you want Jewish votes you are going to make sure to make it 100% clear you do not feel any other view of Churchill is acceptable.
Trump may unfortunately be right that if he denounces Tucker he will lose a lot more votes than he gets so silence is better than denouncing.
Just realize this poll shows the price.
Republicans still have Orthodox Jews as they always do and it still at around 95%.
For why a nationwide leftist anti-Semitic spike didn’t translate to Jewish votes thank Tucker and his supporters.
Wanting to hear all about what is like to be working class to the heir to the Swanson Corporation….hope it is worthwhile to you.
No, he is not heir to the Swanson fortune. His stepmother was, and the Swanson foods company was sold to Campbells in 1955. Fourteen years before the birth of Tucker Carlson.
This is the same error as that made by those who think Teresa Kerry owns a big chunk of Heinz ketchup, let alone those who think she has some kind of influence on the company. Her inherited fortune was originally derived from the company, but she is not a major shareholder.
So he is heir to a woman who holds how much money?
There is no definition of working class, lower class, or middle class that involves Tucker Carlson.
There is also no definition of 1st class that does not involve the entire lifetime of Tucker Carlson.
He doesn’t just now know what poverty is like he doesn’t know what a middle class lifestyle is like either the only thing he knows is upper class.
According to the ai
“In 1955, the Swanson family sold the company to Campbell Soup Company, but Patricia Swanson remained a beneficiary of the family wealth. When Tucker’s father, Dick Carlson, married Patricia in 1979, Tucker and his brother Buckley became step-children and inherited some of the Swanson family wealth.”
There is no way around it there is no definition of elite status not involving the hypocrite Tucker Carlson.
By the way Tucker doesn’t support increasing taxes on the upper class, neither does he support increased government programs for dealing with poverty, he is not a fan of LBJ either…….
He isn’t for improving Obamacare which he never explains what he is against in it (is he of the opinion government should directly provide healthcare? No explanation for what is wrong with it=are you just against the U.S. Government subsidizing poor people?).
He is pro-tariffs, and for closing the border just like literally every other Republican.
The only thing he provides that is unique is his pro-Hitler and other horrific opinions such as his hatred of Truman for dropping the atomic bomb saving millions of Japanese, Indonesian, Malayan, a million American, at least tens of thousands if not more British, along with saving millions of Chinese, many Russian, and Moluccan and other lives.
He is the only one in the Republican mainstream who likes Vladimir Putin…..which I would think is as repulsive to you as it is to me.
The public did not like the Kerry Family pretending to know something about the gutter, and I would be a total hypocrite if I gave Tucker a pass for pretending the same way.
This is Pew I wouldn’t trust a thing they say. They have a clear liberal bias and massively over sample that way. So if they say it’s 30% approx support for Trump my guess is add 20%. I think it’s likely 50-50 like the rest of the population. I still agree that the 50% of Jews voting for Harris need to see a psychiatrist because their “progressive ID card” is more important than their survival. Also I would love to see how they define who is and who isn’t a Jewish voter. My guess is that if you once ate matzah you are a Jewish voter. But in terms of how we define a Jew you have to have converted or be born to a Jewish mother. So sorry Madonna is not really a Jew, but Amari Stoudemire is.
All of the polls showing Trump gaining with Jews happened prior to Tucker Carlson promoting Holocaust denial.
Voters aren’t fair, and company you keep issues will always be something voters do.
If the Babylon Bee was running for president Jews would be shifting Republican.
I do think the Tucker Carlson bit was upsetting to people but I don’t know that it’s as influential as the media thinks it is. Tucker was already seen as a crank and conspiracy theory guy well before this. Also Harris and Walz associates are far worse.
I would agree to an extent that to a lot of people like you and I saw him as a crank but his influence in right wing circles was big, and he was perceived as a representative of the right. I wish he wasn’t I would have loved the Trump surge with Jews to endure and for him to break Jews out of the last century’s partisan affiliation.
This would have been a lot worst if he wasn’t starting to gain a crank reputation (i.e. it would have been much worst had it been done on Fox News).
I agree Kamala secret meetings have involved pretty bad people. That is why she never intended the public to know about them, and being blunt I do not think our side has been effective in showing them to many people even when it wasn’t intended to be a secret. For one of the worst an open Nazi who happens to be Muslim associated with the VP nominee…… the only thing I could say about our sides letting people know is either it is a smashing failure or never tried.
I would only point out that the “Jewish’ vote isn’t altogether different from the ‘Latino’ vote in the context of location. How Jews might vote in the Midwest (or Pennsylvania) could be/likely will be appreciably different from how Jews might vote in California. We see the very same dynamic with Latinos in some specific geographic regions (FL, South Texas) voting differently than how they do in California, New Mexico or New York for instance.
The Jewish vote really only matters in one state…maybe two states, PA for certain and perhaps Michigan. In the rest of the battleground states, there simply aren’t enough Jewish people to have a statistical impact. If 99% of California Jews for Dems it won’t make a bit of difference in the election. But, it sure would skew the ‘Jewish vote’ nationally.
Excellent point! Yes most Jews live in New York, California and Florida but there are sizable chunks in Pennsylvania and Michigan and Ohio. So totally basing the Jewish vote on New York liberals is not accurate nor reflective of how all Jews feel. There are reasons people choose to live in different places and different day to day experiences with antisemitism.
They never call me. Although, TBH, a pollster asking me if I were Jewish would scare me.
I hang up on pollsters. I have no idea who is really at the other end of the wire. Do I want to invite surveillance, or a tax audit, or a no-knock raid to “the wrong address, sorry” after they smash up my house, shoot my dog, and hold me in cuffs in the back of a patrol car for several hours?
I didn’t even know Tucker pulled a stunt like that … (cut cable a year ago)
I didn’t follow him and really dont care… still voting for Trump.
Some possible explanations:
1. For a lot of Reform, Conservative, and secular Jews, voting Democrat is part of their religion. Blame the concept of “Tikkun Olam”, heavily promoted in the ’70s by the likes of Michael Lerner, which has turned the left-wing Christian concept of “social justice” into the first and only Commandment of Judaism, replacing the 613 that the Torah prescribes. For such Jews, their fear of antisemitism has to do battle with this commitment to “Tikkun Olam”, and a lot of them feel they have no choice but to bite the bullet and vote Democrat.
2. Many many Jews are convinced, for no good reason, that Republicans are antisemites, and particularly that Trump is an antisemite. Until just recently one could honestly tell such a person that while antisemitism exists openly and is tolerated or even celebrated in the Democrat Party, there is no open antisemitism on the right, and if there are any antisemites they take care to keep it secret or they’re thrown out. Unfortunately this is no longer the case. The secret antisemites on the right have started daring to reveal themselves, and they have faced very few consequences. Cf Candice Owens and Tucker Carlson. So long as Carlson is still persona grata in the GOP, we can no longer point fingers at those who honor the likes of Sharpton and Farrakhan.
3.There are a lot of secular Jews who indentify as Jews but it means absolutely nothing to them, and they see no reason why it should influence their vote. It’s not that their voting against Jewish interests, is that they don’t believe there is such a thing as Jewish interests, and if there were they’re not interested.
For point one remember the dying left wing Jewish synagogues are mirrored by dying left wing churches, so I think the first point is going to be a lot less important as time goes on.
The second point however….that one is going to remain with us for a long time.