Reply #30: GALLUP SHOWS A HUGE LEAD - BY MORE THAN 3 to 1

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One of the more interesting stories of this year's presidential campaign has been Barack Obama's relative weakness with Jewish voters, a voting group that typically strongly backs Democratic presidential nominees but whose backing for Obama has been significantly weaker than for his recent Democratic predecessors.

But that's apparently changing.

Gallup reported the following today:

PRINCETON, NJ -- Jewish voters nationwide have grown increasingly comfortable with voting for Barack Obama for president since the Illinois senator secured the Democratic nomination in June. They now favor Obama over John McCain by more than 3 to 1, 74% to 22%...

...The current proportion of U.S. Jews backing Obama is identical to the level of support the Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards received in the 2004 presidential election (74%). It is only slightly lower than what Al Gore and Joe Lieberman received in 2000 (80%) -- when the first Jewish American appeared on the presidential ticket of a major party.

One of Gallup's more fascinating, counter-intuitive findings in this poll is that older Jews are actually stronger for Obama than younger Jews.

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link: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/10...