Jewish voting patterns in America

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During the first half of the twientih century Jewish voting pattern in America largely represented the background and history of the Jewish American. Before FDR Jews from Germany tended to support the Republican Party. Jews from Poland and Russia, many of whom were Yiddish speakers, supported Socialist and Communist parties in America. With the candidacy of Franklin Roosevelt and the advent of the New Deal, Jews began to vote solidly for the Democratic Party. Jews gave 90% support to Democrats in the elections of 1940, 1944 and 1948.

They gave about a third of their vote to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. In 1960 Jews voted 83% for Catholic Democrat John F. Kennedy. In 1964, when the Republicans nominated a strongly conservative candidate, Barry Goldwater, who was of some Jewish descent, 90% of Jews voted for his opponent Lyndon Johnson.^[1] Since 1968 Jews have voted about 70%-80% Democratic, surging to 87% for Democratic House candidates in 2006.^[2] After the 2006 elections there were 13 Jews in the Senate (out of 100 members),^[3] of whom two (Norm Coleman and Arlen Specter) were Republicans, and 30 in the House (out of 435 members),^[4] only one of whom (Eric Cantor) was a Republican.