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| Poll: Arab-Americans prefer Kerry |
| 2004-03-13 |
| Wonder why? Think he’ll play this up? I wouldn’t, but I certainly hope he does A poll released Friday indicates Arab-Americans in four states would choose Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., over George Bush in the U.S. presidential election. The Zogby poll conducted for the Arab-American Institute has Kerry at 54 percent against 30 percent for Bush when the two are matched head-to-head. When liberal activist Ralph Nader, who is mounting a third-party challenge, is added to the mix, he polls at 20 percent, while Kerry’s support falls to 43 percent and Bush’s drops to 27 percent. The poll of 501 registered Arab-American voters also found that only 28 percent would vote to re-elect Bush while 65 percent said they would prefer someone new. The four states in which the survey was conducted were Ohio, Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #5 Affluent, educated Arab americans are voting with their dollars in support of Bush. Here's the link to the Feb 17 posting. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-3-13 11:17:13 PM |
| #4 I wonder what the poll numbers for christian arabs would look like? |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-3-13 10:53:20 PM |
| #3 For what it's worth, John Zogby's brother Jim is now officially affiliated with the Democratic National Party after being active in Arab-American issues for many years. I'm not sure though how many 'followers' Jim and his group have. Most of the Arab-Americans here in upstate NY (and there are many) are pretty socially conservative and family oriented. Very patriotic, too. Ideal Republicans actually. I think the poll may be skewed towards more urban areas. |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-3-13 8:23:56 PM |
| #2 I'd like to see a poll of Iraqi-Americans and Afghan-Americans. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-3-13 3:02:27 PM |
| #1 Affluent, educated Arab americans are voting with their dollars in support of Bush. The NY Times did a story a couple weeks back on this. Gotta find the link. FWIW Monday's Investors Business Daily is out today with a poll that shows Bush's poll numbers snapping back nicely across the board, shows him in the lead with or without Nader in the race. Bush going on the offensive is starting to work. God Bless America and Bush. |
| Posted by: ne1469 2004-3-13 12:12:36 PM |