And welcome two more Jewish ultra-liberal senators - Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Ben Cardin of Maryland.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3325529,00.html

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87 percent of Jews vote Democrat
Democratic Party wins largest percentage of Jewish support since 1994. Elections expert: Jews voted for candidates good for Israel, but also focused on other issues

Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 11.08.06, 13:04

WASHINGTON - American Jews expressed flagrant support for Democratic candidates for Congress, contributing to a turnaround in the House of Representatives. According to a CNN sampling of voters, 87 percent of Jewish voters voted Democrat.

This was the highest percentage of support for Democrats since the Republicans took over Congress in 1994.

Two years after a decisive election victory for Bush and his Republicans, Democrats sweep Republicans out of power in US House of Representatives, riding public doubts about war in Iraq, President Bush's leadership to victory.

The Republican Party tried to frighten Jewish voters during the election campaign, primarily with their ads in Jewish newspapers, but no one was buying.

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I think that Jews may have outdone even African-Americans in their overwhelming support for Democrats and their rejection of the GOP!

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Originally posted by 500_Apples:

As a Jew, I find that kind of patronizing.

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What?

- The way Jews voted?

- The suggestion that it matters how Jews voted?

- The suggestion that Jews vote as a bloc?

- The comparison to African Americans?

- The suggestion that Jews may have "outdone" African Americans in some area?

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And welcome two more Jewish ultra-liberal senators - Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Ben Cardin of Maryland.

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Muslims voted 90 to 10 For Democrats! Delivered Virgina!
by choclate
Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 03:39:09 PM PST
* The number of first time voters in Virginia was in thousands, even Jim Webb's victory speach had Arab American posters which was great to see...not that I am an Arab *

CAIR-Ohio: Faithful Voted on Values
War, scandals and social justice all swayed religious voters, observers say Source: Columbus Dispatch
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CAIR-OHIO: FAITHFUL VOTED ON VALUES

Adnan Mirza, executive director of the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that exit polls conducted by CAIR showed 90 percent of Muslims voting Democratic in the races for governor, the U.S. House and Senate, and Franklin County commissioner.

"I think you can almost say it was a mandate on issues that had been implemented by the Bush administration," he said.

Wiretapping, extradition and civil liberties concerns, such as profiling, have cast Muslims in this country in a negative light and have had "a major impact on our community," Mirza said.

"To see the first Muslim being elected to the House, especially against the personal attacks he had to face in this election, speaks volumes."

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Haven't done any checking myself, but I'm willing to bet a large number of Catholics supported the Dems over the Reich-Volk as well (I noticed a whole lot of Italian, Hispanic and Greek last names among the Democratic Party candidates).

I guess that's in part what the Reich-volk get for being such blatant anti-democratic corporate brown-nosers loaded with fanatical flat-earth religious evangelical types (who thankfully seemed to be the ones who took the biggest beating in last week's vote).

That's what they get for being such bigoted violent freedom-hating greedy capitalists who claim they walked the Earth with dinosaurs six thousand years ago.

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, for one, don't find it too surprising that so many Jews and Moslems voted for the Democrats over the Republicans.
Haven't done any checking myself, but I'm willing to bet a large number of Catholics supported the Dems over the Reich-Volk as well (I noticed a whole lot of Italian, Hispanic and Greek last names among the Democratic Party candidates).

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Serious question Stockholm: how do you think it breaks down in Canada? We only hear about the US because they do more polling than we do.

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Originally posted by Stockholm:

And welcome two more Jewish ultra-liberal senators - Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Ben Cardin of Maryland.

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Originally posted by brookmere:
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"Liberal" means not being bound to any fixed political ideology, and I think that "ultra-Liberal" would mean having no principles at all.

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What? Since when? "Liberalism" has a long and storied history.

While I don't vouch for everything in this article, there is some useful information here:

Wikipedia - Liberalism

Your definition sounds like something right out of the Republican party's Rove-ian playbook - i.e. paint "liberals" as godless folks with no principles...

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Originally posted by Lord Palmerston:
I don't like the Dems either Fidel.

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I remember listening to an American anarchist on the car radio just a few years ago. I didn't catch whether it was a taped speech or what I was listening to at the time. It was Abbie Hoffman. The things he talked about were all things I could identify with and relate to, or at least that's what I thought I was hearing. I pulled the car over because what he was saying just floored me. "Right on!", I said aloud minus some expletives for emphasis. Not sure what his political persuasion was. AH said that there are rich Jews, middle class Jews, and there are Jews on welfare, which made me chuckle at the time, because it confirmed for me that Jewish ppl are like everybody else. Abbie Hoffman, David, Stephen and Avi Lewis, Dave Barrett, Marx, Lenin etc, those are Jewish people I can identify with. Ralph Nader would be an excellent candidate, imo. Is Nader anti-Semitic, or is it that he's against the right-wing in Israel ?. He sounds like a socialist with some of what he says. Of course, there's always the socialist party to vote for.

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Originally posted by B.L. Zeebub LLD:

Your definition sounds like something right out of the Republican party's Rove-ian playbook - i.e. paint "liberals" as godless folks with no principles...

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And on this side of the border, it's the NDP that has always said that Liberals have no principles. Or haven't you noticed? Or maybe the Liberals aren't "liberal"? So who's liberal in Canada then?

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