Re: Lieberman still a hawk
On Jul 2, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2007 10:59, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
I suppose he thinks this somehow benefits Israel
This would appear to be the consensus view in the Looby, would it not?
Then the “Looby” is really at odds with those whom they purport to
represent.
http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=26677
February 23, 2007 Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War Opposition goes beyond Jewish Americans’ political affiliations
by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll data collected since the
beginning of 2005 finds that among the major religious groups in the
United States, Jewish Americans are the most strongly opposed to the
Iraq war. Catholics and Protestants are more or less divided in their
views on the war, while Mormons are the most likely to favor it.
Those with no religious affiliation also oppose the war, but not to
the same extent that Jewish people do. The greater opposition to the
war is not simply a result of high Democratic identification among
U.S. Jews, as Jews of all political persuasions are more likely to
oppose the war than non-Jews who share the same political leanings.
For this analysis, Gallup combined 13 surveys from the last two-plus
years that measured both support for the Iraq war (using Gallup’s
“mistake for the U.S. to send troops to Iraq” question) and
respondent religious affiliation, for a combined sample of more than
12,000 interviews. Across the time period these 13 surveys covered,
an average of 52% of Americans opposed the war by saying the United
States made a mistake to invade Iraq, and 46% favored the war by
saying it did not make a mistake.
The table shows how Iraq war support breaks down among the religious
groups for which there are sufficiently large sample sizes to provide
stable estimates.
United States Made a Mistake in Sending Troops to Iraq, by Religious
Affiliation,
2005-2007 Gallup Polls
Religious Preference
War War
a mistake not a mistake
All Americans 52 46 Protestants 48 49 Non-black Protestants 43 55 Black Protestants 78 18 Catholics 53 46 Jews 77 21 Mormons 27 72 No religion 66 33
Of these major religious groups, three show more opposition than
support for the war:
Jewish people oppose the Iraq war by a better than 3-to-1 margin, 77%
to 21%.
Americans without a religious preference are twice as likely to
oppose (66%) as to support (33%) the war.
Catholics are somewhat more likely to oppose (53%) than to support
the war (46%).
On the other hand, Mormons and Protestants show more support than
opposition to the war. Mormons are strongly in favor, as just 27%
term the war “a mistake.” Overall, Protestants are divided, with 48%
opposed and 49% in favor. But black Protestants and non-black
Protestants diverge in their views. Black Protestants — who are
overwhelmingly Democratic — show strong opposition to the war, while
among non-black Protestants, support for the Iraq war surpasses the
majority level (55% say the war was not a mistake).
As has been well-established, war support is strongly influenced by
one’s political leanings — Democrats overwhelmingly oppose the war
while Republicans favor it by a similarly wide margin. One might
assume that the greater war opposition among Jews is attributable to
the group being overwhelmingly Democratic. In this sample, 52% of
Jewish people identify as Democrats, and another 20% are independents
who say they lean to the Democratic Party.
But a closer analysis of the data show that Jewish war opposition
goes beyond their basic political leanings. Jewish people are more
likely to oppose the war than non-Jews of the same political
persuasion. For example, 89% of Jewish Democrats oppose the Iraq war,
compared with 78% of all non-Jewish Democrats.
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