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ericson00

(2,707 posts)
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 02:12 AM Nov 2016

Absentee-voter exit poll: Trump wins Israel by [35] points less than Romney did

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Absentee-voter-exit-poll-Trump-wins-Israel-by-65-points-less-than-Romney-did-471569

Donald Trump won the US presidential vote among American citizens voting from Israel, according to an iVoteIsrael exit poll taken this week, but in an election plagued with low favorability ratings for both candidates, he had a far less impressive showing than past Republicans have in Israel.

As The Jerusalem Post exclusively reported on Wednesday, Trump received 49% of the Israeli-American vote, while Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton got 44%, according to the poll conducted by get-out-the-vote organization iVoteIsrael and KEEVOON Global Research.


This makes me hopeful that the attempt by some on the right and the left to make Israel into a partisan issue will soon end, come Tuesday. Also, exit polls DO have margins of error, so this could've been closer than seems.

PS: I edited the headline because they made an error.
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Absentee-voter exit poll: Trump wins Israel by [35] points less than Romney did (Original Post) ericson00 Nov 2016 OP
Odd that so many of the more religious voted for Trump. LuvNewcastle Nov 2016 #1
Why do they always vote R? gto Nov 2016 #2
because of Obama's misguided "daylight" as well as the GOP did good outreach in '00s ericson00 Nov 2016 #3
Misguided? vdogg Nov 2016 #4
it didn't achieve the goal of making America less hated by Muslims enough to lower Islamic extremism ericson00 Nov 2016 #9
hmmm rtracey Nov 2016 #5
some of it is a reaction to the BDS/blame-Israel-first crowd ericson00 Nov 2016 #8
American Jews favor Clinton by a 3:1 margin over Trump... shira Nov 2016 #10
one can hope rtracey Nov 2016 #11
Trump is bad, but no he is not. ericson00 Nov 2016 #12
we can agree to disagree rtracey Nov 2016 #13
vast majority of American Jews are supporting Hillary vs Trump geek tragedy Nov 2016 #15
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LuvNewcastle

(17,019 posts)
1. Odd that so many of the more religious voted for Trump.
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 02:55 AM
Nov 2016

I'll bet Hillary is much more involved in her church than Trump is in his.

 

ericson00

(2,707 posts)
3. because of Obama's misguided "daylight" as well as the GOP did good outreach in '00s
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 03:12 AM
Nov 2016

as Bush reversed his party's milquetoast reputation on Israel after his father had piss poor relations with them, Bob Dole wasn't very popular with Israel (he tried to look pro-Israel for '96 but his record before was anything but). Bush did far better in 2004 with the Jewish vote than he did in 2000 and than Dole or Bush '92.

Also, Obama's attempt to make America less hated in the Muslim world, by putting "daylight" between America and Israel didn't help.

Look at the bright side of the ultimate result for 2016 tho; the result, a 4 point difference, might be in the margin of error, given that its an exit poll.

vdogg

(1,385 posts)
4. Misguided?
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 05:15 AM
Nov 2016

All Obama did is take a more neutral stance and call Israel on their settlement bullshit instead of staying silent. He also refused to subordinate U.S. policy to the whims of Netanyahu. This was not a mistake at all. If anything we need more daylight between us and Israel, not less.

 

ericson00

(2,707 posts)
9. it didn't achieve the goal of making America less hated by Muslims enough to lower Islamic extremism
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 01:16 PM
Nov 2016

hence why it didn't succeed.

If one simply doesn't like Israel, then of course it was good. Obama says he likes Israel, which many debate, but if we take him at his word, then the motive for "daylight" failed, and did so miserably.

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
5. hmmm
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 07:54 AM
Nov 2016

What I find bothersome is that Jewish and Israel/american citizens are voting for a someone who resembles in every way Hitler.... You are a bunch of fucking fools.......

 

ericson00

(2,707 posts)
8. some of it is a reaction to the BDS/blame-Israel-first crowd
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 01:15 PM
Nov 2016

much of which, quite frankly, is a helluva lot more like Hitler than Trump.

 

ericson00

(2,707 posts)
12. Trump is bad, but no he is not.
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 03:33 PM
Nov 2016

I don't like the guy, or I wouldn't be on this site. But no, he's not Hitler, nor is he peddling the Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik-Capitalist conspiracy theories that Hitler did (which he inherited from Protocols and Henry Ford's "International Jew" tome).

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
15. vast majority of American Jews are supporting Hillary vs Trump
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 01:34 PM
Nov 2016

those living in Israel, like Israelis in general, tilt considerably to the right of those living in the US (they overwhelmingly supported Romney in 2012).

Difference between Romney and Trump for them is pretty simple: Trump's movement and campaign rhetoric is full of anti-Semitism, some coded, some blatant.

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