In America, Jews disproportionately tend to...
(1) Have college degrees
(2) Live in urban areas
Those things, particularly when taken together, make it extremely unlikely that someone is going to vote Republican.
If Republicans really want to win a larger share of the Jewish vote, they should start a campaign to discourage young Jews from attending college and convince them to go live in places like Huntington, WV and Cape Girardeau, MO. Over time, they will "assimilate" to their new surroundings (of course, they will also probably stop identifying as Jewish).
This is true, but Jews have been voting Democratic far longer than other urban/upscale suburban college-educated white groups have been. They were some of the strongest supporters of FDR and have been solidly Dem since. It is surprising that Hillary did worse than Kerry with Jewish voters, for example.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-voting-record-in-u-s-presidential-elections
There is strong Democratic ancestry at play here, on top of the contemporary factors associated with Democratic voting, such as being a college-educated person residing in an urban area.
...What the hell is this.
No, it's that Bush's campaign was openly, unapologetically, and blatantly Christian in a way that makes non-Christians deeply uncomfortable (and which no GOP candidate has done since).
