Obama's Approval Rating Is 64 Percent, Among American Jews

[Mosby]

WASHINGTON — Sixty-four percent of American Jews approve of President Obama’s job performance, the highest of any religious group surveyed in a new Gallup poll.

The Jewish job approval number was also signficantly higher than the national average of 52 percent approval for Obama.

The 64 percent is down from 83 percent job approval among Jews in January, but the decline is no greater than the one seen in the general population. Obama’s approval rating is down 14 percentage points among the general population in those nine months and 19 points among Jews, which both represent an approximate 20 percent drop. In its analysis, Gallup suggested that the numbers mean Obama’s policies on Israel and the Middle East did not have a disproportionate effect on his approval ratings in the Jewish community.

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The only subgroup in the poll that rated Obama higher than Jews were atheists, agnostics or those who had no religious affiliation. Among them, Obama has a 65 percent approval rating.

http://www.forward.com/articles/115944/

[BlooInBloo]

1. Why can't Obama seal the deal with Jewish folks?????

:rofl:

[Obamacare]

2. Thats good to know

I think the independents are the ones who have brought his approval ratings down in the 50's. If we can get some of them back on board his approval ratings will go back up in the 60s, but the 50s isn't bad, you just don't want it to get any lower than that.

[bullimiami]

3. american jews are as a majority conservative left to moderate left.

so of course a moderately conservative dem like obama (and clinton) would have high approval.

[cali]

4. lol. I love it when people make up their own facts. it's cute.

here's a fact: The majority of Jews are democrats. They support dem presidents.

[bullimiami]

7. no shit. they are democrats because they tend mostly middle to left. exactly what i said.

[Meshuga]

11. The largest Jewish religious group actively campaign for single payer system

How middle left of them! And the Conservative Movement (the second largest) has a huge politically liberal wing.

I don't know where you are getting your perceptions from but the American Jewish community is VERY liberal for the most part. To give you an idea, while McGovern got 37% of the popular vote in 1972 he was the choice of 65% of Jewish voters.

[bullimiami]

14. american democrats are not exactly 'left'. we are centrist. the right has shifted pretty far over.

[MidwestTransplant]

5. Freeper head exploding. They somehow thing Jews want to be complicit in their Rapture.

[pink-o]

6. Okay, as a Jew (cultural) and an Atheist (spiritual, or rather lack of)

Does that mean I'm double-dipped??

Dudes, what a lot of people don't understand is that most Jews are progressives. Just 'cuz we have the idiot Neo-cons like Wolfowitz and Kristol, the whining Wingnut babies like Bernie Goldberg, or the greedy bankers like all the guys from Goldman-Sachs or AIG doesn't mean they're representative of the majority any more than Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton represent African Americans. I actually work in Customer Service and make 50 thou a year. My cousin works for Giant Foods as a grocery clerk in Pikesville, Md and takes home about the same. We don't care about money above all else. We do care about fairness and justice, we're taught to question and use our brains, we're told we're different so the ground is fertile to ponder intellectual concepts and make principled conclusions.

Also, we fought alongside African Americans for Civil Rights during the 60s. Why would it be so surprising that we'd support an intelligent African American President?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. I think it's difficult for some people to accept because there has been a rift between Jews

and African Americans (e.g., Bakke affirmative action case, the advent of the Neocon movement, Jesse Jackson's "hymie town" incident, etc.). But there also has been a movement of some conservative Jews to the right. For me 64% is quite disturbing when historically over 80% of Jews self-identified as Democrats. Quite a good number of them have become Republican over the years, even though a clear majority of Jews are still Democrats. It should be higher than 64%.

[cali]

10. it's among the highest support he has from a demographic group

and 78% of Jewish voters voted for Obama last year. That's right in line to what it was for Kerry. Don't you think you should be more concerned about the lack of support for Obama from other groups?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. But for other groups, it makes sense. Hispanics are diverse as well, but I understand why

Cuban Americans vote Republican. I also understand that many Hispanics or Latin Americans tend to be more socially conservative, so it makes sense. And of course I know that the Jewish American population is quite diverse. I simply don't understand why any marginalized group of Americans, be they black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, women, etc. would EVER want to become Republican. I just don't understand it. Never will.

[Meshuga]

12. Approval rating dropping from 80 or so percent to 64% does not mean...

...that the Jews who changed their minds turned to republican voters. That's just an approval rating and it does not mean that they are not voting for Obama. There is also the case of progressive Jews who expect more from Obama and the Democratic congress, like learn to negotiate and act as if they were progressives. For example, the way health care and climate change have been dealt with by Democrats is not very encouraging for some progressives, and this include Jews.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. Sure. I understand that.

[Kber]

13. My (jewish) mother does not approve of Obama's performance

because he's not nearly liberal enough for her.

Just saying.

On the other hand, my great grandfather was a comunist. My grandmother is a socialist. My mom votes democratic.

So your observation about Jews tending to be more conservative over time might hold some truth.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

18. I just *some* conservative Jews tend to move to the right, particularly older American Jews.

Obviously, that's not the case with most American Jews.

[mucifer]

9. We Jews are very diverse. Some very conservative some very liberal.

In American history we have civil rights activists and slave owners. We have union activist leaders and cruel anti human rights heads of industry.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. I believe it!

My current boyfriend is Jewish. And a Trial Attorney. He loves the guy! :rofl: But he also is loving Grayson right now too! ;-)