Op-Ed Columnist - Oy Vey, Obama - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Oy Vey, Obama - NYTimes.com

Is President Obama good for the Jews? For more and more Jewish-Americans, the answer is no.

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Charles M. Blow

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In a Pew Research Center report issued on Thursday and entitled “Growing Number of Americans Say Obama Is a Muslim” (tragic in its own right), there was another bit of bad news for Obama: the number of Jews who identify as Republican or as independents who lean Republican has increased by more than half since the year he was elected. At 33 percent it now stands at the highest level since the data have been kept. In 2008, the ratio of Democratic Jews to Republican Jews was far more than three to one. Now it’s less than two to one.

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