Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Jews still for Kerry
Next time someone tells you that Bush is gaining major ground with the Jewish vote, show them this poll.
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President Bush's full-term effort to court Jewish Americans has failed, according to a new poll that shows him trailing Sen. John Kerry among those voters in the race for president by 53 percentage points. "The work that the Bush administration has done over the last three years to reach out to Jewish voters has been largely unsuccessful," said pollster Anna Greenberg, who conducted the poll for the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC).
Mr. Kerry, the Democratic nominee, leads Mr. Bush 75 percent to 22 percent. That share is four percentage points less than the 79 percent that exit polls said was won by the 2000 Democratic ticket of Al Gore and Sen. Joe Lieberman — the first Jewish candidate ever on a major-party presidential ticket. This comes despite Mr. Bush being what one Republican called "the best friend that Israel has ever had in the White House"
