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karynnj

(59,504 posts)
10. I think that they will be surprised how few Jews are one issue voters -
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:10 PM
Mar 2015

one the majority of the ones who are are Orthodox - and a fair proportion of them vote Republican -- and against school budgets at least in Rockland county NY.

(In fact, I predict a demographic shift - not because of Netanyahu or more generations of affluence, but because over time the Orthodox proportion of the Jewish population is very likely to rise. They have much larger families and lose very few children to intermarriage. )

The parties are so polarized that in most races, that very few liberals would vote for the Republican who they likely disagree with on everything else.

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