According to Gallup, and despite the fevered prognostications of a million bobbleheads, it looks like Jews still intend to "vote like Puerto Ricans" (as the old saying goes) this year:
The analysis:
The current proportion of U.S. Jews backing Obama is identical to the level of support the Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards received in the 2004 presidential election (74%). It is only slightly lower than what Al Gore and Joe Lieberman received in 2000 (80%) -- when the first Jewish American appeared on the presidential ticket of a major party.I guess Jackie Mason wasn't so persuasive. This is what, the third or fourth ethnic group that the great political minds of our time believed wasn't going to vote for a black guy?
--A. Serwer
