Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Obama’s 78%

By Marc Korman.

Before the election, I wrote a post on Barack Obama and the Jewish vote. Happily, the polling understated his support in the Jewish community. President-elect Obama drew 78% of the Jewish vote. That is an increase over John Kerry’s share in 2004 and just 1% less than Al Gore in 2000, who had a Jewish running mate. I suppose we have Sarah Silverman to thank.

Here is a list of the Democratic ticket’s percentage of the Jewish vote going all the way back to 1916:

Jewish Vote By Year:

Wilson-55%
Cox-19% (The Republican candidate received 43%, the Socialist candidate received 38%)
Davis-51%
Smith-72%
Roosevelt-82%
Roosevelt-85%
Roosevelt-90%
Roosevelt-90%
Truman-75%
Stevenson-64%
Stevenson-60%
Kennedy-82%
Johnson-90%
Humphrey-81%
McGovern-65%
Carter-71%
Carter-45% (The Republican received 39%, an Independent candidate received 14%)
Mondale-67%
Dukakis-64%
Clinton-80%
Clinton-78%
Gore-79%
Kerry-76%
Obama-78%