How will the Jewish vote go?

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Overall it will continue to trend Democratic at the Presidential level, until Republicans elect a "normal" generic Republican type candidate (Which likely won't happen until 2024 at the earliest).

Although I hate throwing out anecdotal stuff as facts, especially involving segments of the Jewish diaspora scattered around the US, my older Sister is Orthodox Jewish and are fixtures of the Community in their Temple in South Seattle....

Their Eldest Children have now come of age and are married to Orthodox Jewish families in Pennsylvania, and the next few have been living in Orthodox Jewish Communities in Metro NYC while attending "Pre-College" classes within a tight-knit and culturally conservative community.

Her precinct that was overwhelmingly Orthodox Jewish went 90-5 Clinton, right by the Shul where her and family have lived for almost two decades....

The Orthodox Jewish Community that my eldest niece married into from Pittsburgh, had the Patriarch of the Family that was totally NRA Gun fan, and also an extremely vocal proponent of expansion of Israeli settlements within Judea and Samaria....

Although the after Wedding family dialogue was a bit awkward when these topics were discussed, especially after the Patriarch of the other family went on an Anti-Obama diatribe, Shuah my Nieces Husband, as well as much of his Family of Millennial Age, are not big proponents of the "Traditional" Orthodox perspective on a wide range of social and political issues....

Personal anecdotes aside, obviously the various ranges of the "Orthodox Community" (Which in Judaism encompasses an extremely wide range of different perspectives), is not the monolithic entity that some might perceive it to be....

Obviously Jewish-Americans care very deeply about the future of the Israel, and are well cognizant about the existential threat to a Nation that was literally founded upon the ashes of the Holocaust...

Still, the whole idea that Jewish-American voters somehow view Republican and Democratic debates regarding the region as the major impetus for their votes, ignores the fact that Democratic and Republican Presidents alike ever since 1948 have been strong supporters of Israel, although sometimes Israeli domestic politics have created significant differences of opinion, especially since the late '70s/early 80s, since we had individuals such as Amos Oz and many others represent the original Zionist argument against War, where arguably the War in Lebanon was the first major Israeli Military act of aggression, other than the Wars of self-defense that previously we had fought to protect our homeland against external assault.

Wrapping it up, Millennial Jewish-Americans, even those of Orthodox backgrounds are swinging heavily Democratic... Obviously the only question mark is how will newer Jewish-American immigrants to America vote, that tend to come overwhelmingly Eastern-European backgrounds since shortly before the end of the Cold War, when Gorbachev allowed Millions of Jews from the former USSR to leave, after decades and centuries of political persecution from both Monarchs and Communists alike....

We will never forget the history, where America stood virtually alone in the World at the height of Nazism in Europe, nor the way that it stood up for the plight of Jewish Americans in Soviet Russia, but still Jewish-Americans are not one trick ponies dominated by one nor another political party, and it appears that whatever gains George W. might have achieved back in '04 is fading fast....

It's a bit odd where one sees a convergence of Faith-Based communities, from Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Mainline Christian denominations about some of the crap the current Pres has been spewing since even before he was elected....