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"Jews have devoted themselves to politics with almost religious fervor", writes Mitchell Bard, who adds that Jews have the highest percentage voter turnout of any ethnic group. While 2–2.5% of the United States population is Jewish, 94% live in 13 key electoral college states, which combined have enough electors to elect the president.
During this period, Jews were approximately 3.3 percent of the total U.S. population but they constituted about 4.23 percent of the U.S. armed forces. About 60 percent of all Jewish physicians in the United States who were under 45 years of age were in service as military physicians and medics. [251]
The most basic breakdown of the above data in this page indicates that 86% of the House identify as Christian, 5% of the House identify as Jewish, 3% of the House identify with other religions, <1% of the House is unaffiliated, and 4% of the House have unknown affiliation.
Some sources indicate that Jews constitute only 1.4% of the U.S. population, although others indicate that Jews comprise as much as 2.1% of the population (a significant decline from over 3% in the 1950s, chiefly due to the relatively low birthrate among Jewish Americans and high rates of out-marriage to non-Jews).
Opinion: Are American Jews losing their long-standing political home in the Democratic Party? Yardena Schwartz. August 26, 2024 at 3:00 AM.
According to Bard, [26] "Jews have devoted themselves to politics with almost religious fervor." He cites that "Jews have the highest percentage voter turnout of any ethnic group " and that of the American Jewish population "roughly 94 percent live in thirteen key electoral college states" which alone "are worth enough electoral votes to elect ...
In conjunction with figures derived from the Pew Research Center's 2021 "survey of the religious composition of the United States", [2] [165] the most basic breakdown of the above data indicates that 84% of the Senate identify as Christian (compared with 62% of the population), 9% identify as Jewish (compared with 2% of the population), 4% have ...
During his speech at an antisemitism event in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, former President Donald Trump pledged to be the "defender" of Jewish Americans if he wins but also seemed to suggest ...