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Media and social media influencers are promoting a fake Democrat poll touting massive Jewish support for Biden.
In new poll, Jewish voters express strong support for Biden on Israel – NPR
A poll released Thursday by the Jewish Electorate Institute found that 74% of Jewish registered voters approved of Biden’s handling of the war Hamas launched against Israel on Oct. 7. – Ron Kampeas/JTA
Jewish people in US overwhelmingly support Biden and oppose Trump: Poll – Washington Examiner
American Jewish Voters Overwhelmingly Back Biden’s Handling of Israel-Gaza War, New Poll Shows – U.S. News – Haaretz
NPR claims that, “Nearly three-quarters of Jewish Americans said they approve of President Biden’s response to Israel’s war against Hamas, in a new survey by the Jewish Electorate Institute, which calls itself “an independent, non-partisan organization dedicated to deepening the public’s understanding of Jewish American participation in our democracy.”
Note the careful language. JLI “calls itself “an independent, non-partisan organization”.
What is the Jewish Electorate Institute really?
Its site only lists the board members, who include former Democrat congressman Martin Frost. The actual paperwork however reveals that the Jewish Electorate Institute’s executive director is Halie Soifer.
Halie Soifer is the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America and Halie Soifer heavily promoted the JLI poll without revealing that it’s just a nonprofit front group for the Democrats.
The JDCA shamelessly put out a press release announcing a “just released poll from the non-partisan Jewish Electorate Institute”
The Jewish Electorate Institute poll was conducted by GBAO Strategies which boasts of being 2022’s Democratic Pollster of The Year.
So the “nonpartisan” poll is actually a poll from a top Democrat pollster on behalf of a Democrat Jewish voter turnout operation.
The failure of media organizations like the JTA and NPR to report it is another piece of evidence that people really need to stop trusting what they see there. (You may think that’s obvious, but multiple ‘right-wing’ social media influencers promoted this same poll, so clearly it needs to be said.)
But let’s quickly look at the poll itself.
In a predictable fashion, it dramatically oversamples leftists. One way to do that is by screening out religious people.
The poll’s breakdown has only 9% Orthodox Jews and 31% people of no religious denomination who tend to be the furthest to the Left and the most anti-Israel.
Having ensured that most of the people they’re asking are either Reform or irreligious, the JLI/JDCA/GABO poll gets the intended results.
The poll shows that 77% of Reform Jews and 71% of irreligious Jews will support Biden. While 65% of Orthodox Jews will support Trump.
That is what happens when you structure your poll to get the results you want.
“But the real tip-off that this poll is a Democrat operation meant to serve the party’s ends comes with the strange decision to poll support for ‘No Labels’. No Labels is considering a third-party bid potentially involving Sen. Joe Manchin. While No Labels is virtually unknown to most people, Dem operatives are obsessed with destroying it to protect Biden.)
This is a Democrat push poll that relies on the Hamas war to seemingly boost Biden’s poll numbers among Jews while shaping the sample so that it manufactures the appearance of overwhelming support for the Democrat candidate.
Polls like this from Democrat front groups appear every election season and no one learns anything from the experience.
And while I know it’s received wisdom that 70% or some similar number of Jews vote for Democrats, exit polls tend not to account for Jews except in a few select areas, national polling organizations rarely poll Jews and the political polls of Jews are pretty universally conducted by liberal groups with an agenda.
Like this one.
We don’t have good solid numbers on how Jews really vote. But that won’t stop people from believing what they want to believe.
ex jarhead says
Press integrity has not changed in 63 years! Why would anyone think just because name changed to MSM it became honest? ” A rose by ….>”!!
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Daniel! Good coverage and analysis of techniques used to create fake polls.
Can’t trust any poll these days.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics 🙂
NAVY ET1 says
Unfortunately, nearly all polls are meaningless now, but the ONLY polls the MSM uses now are manufactured one’s like this as a means to an end.
SPURWING PLOVER says
The M.S. Media need to be taken to the cleaners for their Fake News and Fake Polls
jeremiah says
If you want the most honest gage of how far to the right Jews are moving because of Oct 7, you might want to check out who St. Louis Park in Minnesota voted in for mayor after Oct 7. and who their rep is.. Maybe the demo is different than when I was a kid, but it’s a pretty good guess that they have moved farther to the left than the right.
Biden sucks, but people are bigger followers of liberal ideas. The propaganda in schools has really worked on the kids and public and general..
Ugly Sid says
The Left excels at wringing the absolute maximum utility from prevarication.
It is the spear point in their arsenal. Their brick and mortar of their promises.
The Left is a fish trap broken free of its mooring line, mindlessly killing for decades.
The promise is Utopia. The reality is a two tiered society of the privileged and the zeks. Solzhenitsyn has provided historical documentation.