Exit Polls Show 85% for Romney, 14% for Obama Among Israeli Voters

November 1, 2012 11:32 am 6 comments

iVoteIsrael released the results of its voter exit poll today and the results were decidedly in Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s favor. 85% of those who cast absentee ballots for the upcoming presidential election said they did so for Romney while only 14% voted for the incumbent, President Barack Obama. 0.6% said that they voted for another candidate. In the key battleground states of Florida and Ohio Romney also beat Obama by a wide margin taking 84.8% to Obama’s 15.1% in the former, and 85.8% to Obama’s 18.1% in the latter state. To the question “What is the most important issue to you in these elections?” 11.2% said jobs and the economy, 2.7% said healthcare, 11.2% said Iran, 0.9% said taxation, 61.3% said Israel-related issues such as the status of Jerusalem and Palestinians and 10% said other.

iVoteIsrael is an organization involved with increasing voter turnout for elections held in the United States among Americans living in Israel. According to iVoteIsrael 80,000 people took part in the campaign, the sample size for the exit poll was 1,572 with a margin of error of +/- 2.5%.

6 Comments

  • ISRAEL IS SUFFERING FROM A DISEASE CALLED
    “UNATURAL FEAR OF OBAMA”….AMERICAN JEWS ARE NOT STUPID
    OR TRAITORS ..THEY WON’T VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO REMAKES
    HIMSELF EVERY 2 WEEKS..AND CHANGES HIS OPINIONS
    EVERY DAY. THE U S ELECTION IS NOT A ONE ISSUE DEAL.
    ISRAEL IS ON TOP OF EVERY JEWS LIST..BUT THE ISRAELIS
    HAVE GREAT HEALTH INSURANCE AND WELFARE BENEFITS AND
    AMERICANS DO NOT. ROMNEY’S BOTTOM LINE IS THAT HE WAS
    A CORPORATE RAIDER WHOSE FAVORITE WORD WAS “BANKRUPTCY”
    ……..CASE CLOSED FOR AMERICA’S JEWS

    • Israelis are suffering from judgement based on action not rhetoric. Unfortunately we have citizens who would vote for Lenin if he ran as Democrat. Welcome to the Third World, U.S.A.

  • Ah !! But are they voting as Americans or as Israelis ??
    …Each community is facing different challenges.
    By the single focus on the Verbal rhetoric and not to the realities of Realpolitik of America as a world power with multiple commitments in a world of of over two hundred nations.
    America will support Israel no matter which administration -and no matter how high pitched the rhetoric.
    But the Jewish support for the only Party that for the past few years has made candidates across the board have to prove their ‘Christianness’ -and by not speaking out for a secular American will come back to haunt and bite American Jews.

  • Salomon Mizrahi

    Correction: If Obama wins, there will be a revenge….Hope he will NOT retract the US veto vote in the UNSC

  • Salomon Mizrahi

    If Obama wins, there will be a revenge….Hope he will retract the US veto vote in the UNSC

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