Exit poll: 77% of Jews voted for Obama

By JPOST.COM STAFF
A preliminary exit poll has shown that US president-elect Barak Obama received 77 percent of the Jewish vote in Tuesday's presidential election, whilst his rival Republican John McCain received 22 percent. In 2004, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry won 74 percent of the Jewish vote, and in 2000 Al Gore received 79 percent of the Jewish vote. The MSNBC poll put Jews at 2 percent of the poll sample.