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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -
Friday, July 3, 1981
AJC Study Confirms Jewish
Voter Pattern in November
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NEW YORK -- More
than one out of four Jewish
voters who supported
Jimmy Carter in 1976
switched to Ronald Reagan
in 1980, according to a study
ofJewish voting behavior in
the Presidential election
conducted by the American
Jewish Congress.
Despite this trend,
President Carter led his op-
ponent by a 2-to-1 margin
and Jewish voters identified
themselves as Democrats by
8-to-1 and as liberals by
3-to-1, the study showed.
Henry Siegman, execu-
tive director of AJCongress,
released the findings of the
survey of 2,500 voters who
identifed themselves as
Jews as they left polling
places across the country
last Nov. 4.
The questionnaires
were administered by
volunteers outside of pol-
ling places in Jewish
neighborhoods in and
around Boston, Chicago,
Dallas, Detroit, Long Is-
land, Los Angeles,
Newark, New York,
Philadelphia and Wash-
ington, D.C.
Jimmy Carter won 50.5
percent of the Jewish vot-
ers, Ronald Reagan 26.9
percent and John Anderson
17.5 percent. In 1976, the
same persons had voted 70.1
percent for Carter, 19.4 per-
cent for Ford and 7.7 per-
cent for neither. (Some 2.7
percent did not vote in
1976.)
More than one-quarter of
Carter voters in 1976 (28
percent) did not vote for him
in 1980. At the same time,
Ronald Reagan received
38.9 percent more Jewish
votes than Gerald Ford did
in 1976.
In terms of party identifi-
cation, 59.2 percent said
they were Democrats, 7.4
percent Republicans, 31.2
Champion Takes
on Government
NEW YORK — Interna-
tional chess grandmaster
Boris Gulko won the Mos-
cow Open championship
last week, despite the fact
that the former Soviet
champion had been banned
from major tournament
competition since 1978,
when he and his wife
applied to emigrate to Is-
rael.
Gulko used his speech at
the awards ceremony to
publicize his plight and the
fate of the wife and son of
another former champion,
Victor Korchnoi. Korchnoi
defected from the Soviet
Union in 1976. His wife and
son have not been allowed to
leave the country and join
Korchnoi, who is scheduled
to make his second bid to
wrest the world chess crown
from Anatoly Karpov of the
Soviet Union this fall.
Correction
An article in the June 12
Jewish News (Page 29) in-
correctly attributed criti-
cism of Norman Podhoretz,
editor of Commentary mag-
azine, to former U.S. special
Middle East envoy Sol
Linowitz.
The article quoted a story
which appeared in the New
York Daily News, written
by I. D. Robbins, which re-
ferred to Linowitz's speech
at the 75th anniversary
meeting of the American
Jewish Committee, parent
organization of Commen-
tary magazine.
Robbins' criticism of
Podohoretz followed the
reference to Linowitz and
was mistakenly attributed
to Linowitz.
AJC Names
Two to Posts
NEW YORK — Richard
L. Weiss of Beverly Hills,
Calif., and Carol Stix of
Scarsdale, N.Y., have been
named to the American
Jewish Committee's
Domestic Affairs Commis-
sion.
percent independents and 6
percent others.
Asked whether they con-
sidered themselves liberals,
moderates or conservatives,
44 percent identified them-
selves as liberals, 40 per-
cent moderates and 14 per-
cent as conservative.
The survey also asked the
2,500 Jewish voters about
what they regarded as the
major election issues on
which they based their
choice for President. The
most important single fac-
tor determining that choice
was the candidate's atti-'
tudes on American support
for Israel, the study showed.
Far behind it —and in de-
creasing order of signifi-
cance — were the candi-
dates' positions in support of
a balanced budget, federal
action against unemploy-
ment, increased defense ex-
penditures and government
financed abortion.
Boris
Smolar's
B
`Between You
. . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
MILITARY NOTES: This summer 20 Jews were
among the graduates of the U.S. military academies, in-
cluding a Jewish girl from Philadelphia, Miriam Crane, a
graduate of the Air Force Academy in Colorado.
The number of Jews serving as officers in the U.S.
armed forces is increasing from year to year. They count
now in the thousands.
At some American installations overseas — for in-
stance, in West Germany — the children get a systematic
Jewish education that can compare with the education
which children receive in Jewish schools in the United
States. They are provided with textbooks prepared by the
National Jewish Welfare Board which serves the cultural
and religious needs of Jews in the armed forces.
The classes are conducted mostly by wives who have a
Jewish background and are graduated from teacher col,
leges in the U.S. To them the teaching ofJewish subjects to
their children away from the United States is a labor of
love. They are also active in conducting children's clubs and
in preparing programs for the Jewish holidays. There is a
Jewish family atmosphere among the families of Jewish
officers.
JEWS IN UNIFORM: There was a time — before
World War II — when– young Jews did not think of making
military service a lifetime career. Now there are many
Jews who choose to make the service a profession. Their
number has especially increased since the Vietnam War.
Many complete their term of service — which is usu-
ally 20 years — when they are still middle-aged men. As
specialists with high education and elaborate practice, they
have no difficulties in finding jobs in their field of work
when they retire from military service. At the same time
they receive their military pension and other benefits as
veterans.
A SERIOUS QUESTION: Now that the U.S. gov-
ernment is sending thousands of engineers, flyers and
technicians to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to
help maintain the many warplanes which these countries
acquire from the United States, the question is being asked:
Are Jews included in the American units sent by the
U.S. to the Arab countries, or are they being eliminated to --
please Saudi Arabia and the rulers of other Arab land:.
which ban admission of Jews?
Are Saudi Arabia and the other countries checking on
the U.S. personnel to establish whether there are Jews
among them?
Is the U.S government determined to see to it that
there is no discrimination against Jews in selecting its
transports of servicemen and officers sent to Saudi Arabia?
I posed these questions to President Ford in the White
House when he was President. The answer was very vague.
Ford replied that since the American military carries no
record of the religious affiliation of its personnel, it is un-
known who among those selected to be transferred to Saudi
Arabia and other Arab lands is Jewish and who is not as far
, as the American government is concerned.