Gallup survey reveals citizens more apt to back Jewish candidates than Muslim, atheist ones
ed note–it is commonly said that ‘Israel controls American foreign policy’, which is true, but which is also a severe understatement.
Contrary to the rhetoric we hear often from certain conservative religious circles, America is not a ‘Christian’ country. It may have ‘Christians’ in it, but it is 100% certified Kosher and as Jewish as it gets. A nation that has been mentally circumcised, all our thoughts, sentiments, opinions, on any given topic, are ‘spiced’ with the leaven of Judaism through and through. What can effectively be described as the ‘Seinfeldization’ of a nation, there is not a single sector of the collective American mind that does not see things through the lens of Judaism.
Therefore, why should anyone be surprised when polls indicate that 91% of Americans would vote for a ‘Jewish prez’? After decades of Seinfeld, movies like ‘Independence Day’ and all the rest, we have been conditioned to love them in what could effectively be described as the most sophisticated case of the Stockholm Syndrome ever devised.
Times of Israel
Ninety-one percent of Americans said they would vote for a presidential candidate who is Jewish, according to a new poll.
The Gallup poll of recent voting preferences released Monday showed that 73 percent of Americans would support an evangelical Christian for president, while 60 percent would back a Muslim and 58 percent an atheist.
The latest results on voting for a Jewish candidate matched those from June 2012. When the question about religion was first asked in 1937, less than half of Americans said they would vote for a Jewish candidate.
In addition to asking about religions, the poll, which was conducted via telephone interviews from June 2 to 7, asked the 1,527 participants aged 18 and older about their willingness to vote for gay or lesbian, African-American, Latino, female and socialist presidential candidates. Ninety-two percent said they would vote for an African-American and/or a woman and 74 percent a gay or lesbian. Forty-seven percent said they would consider voting for a socialist.
Both Democrats (92 percent) and Republicans (95 percent) expressed willingness to vote for a Jewish candidate, but they differed in their willingness to vote for candidates of various other faiths. Among Republicans, 84 percent said they would vote for an evangelical, compared to 66 percent of Democrats, and more Democrats were willing to vote for a Muslim (73 percent) than Republicans (45 percent). Some 64 percent of Democrats would vote for an atheist, compared to 45 percent of Republicans.
Considerably higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans — 85 percent compared to 61 percent — would vote for a gay or lesbian.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the only announced Jewish candidate in the 2016 presidential race. Although Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic nomination, is independent, he has described himself as a democratic socialist and speaks out frequently against income inequality.
The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Respondents came from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
