iikat NE 4. • *111.11111V! ******* *** Ili II Ilf X, el I VIVI It • OR • I'll soug;Ilisteiv NEWS The Jewish vote Continued from Page 1 "Sunset Strip" '/2 Mile North of 12 Mile 29536 Northwestern Hwy. All sales can be exchanged or refunded ° ' ''-'io :oft Mon.-Fri. — 10am-8pm Thursday. ..10am-9pm Saturday... 10am-6pm Sunday ... 10am-4pm All offered at outstanding discount prices. EMERGENCY CARPET SALE Wholesale Carpet Distributor Must Move 4258 Yard Overshipment! FIRST QUALITY FRI. SAT. SUN. Nov.16 Nov. 17 Nov. 18 12-6 9 to 9 9-9 "NOTICE" - (1) h o o SIX BEAUTIFUL COLORS 4. CONTINUOUS FILAMENT NYLON SUBTLE PATTERNS 95 COMPA HR IG EHA ET R MUCH Yard PRICE ANYWHERE THIS IS A BONA FIDE FIRST TIME EVER WAREHOUSE TO PUBLIC CARPET SALE. DON'T CONFUSE US WITH ANY RETAIL STORES Coolidge APOLLO CARPET DISTRIBUTORS 13300 NORTH END • OAK PARK • MiririMMIrtr 542-7393 priffirMmTit The National Jewish Co- alition for Reagan-Bush dis- puted those figures, as well as the ABC and CBS exit polls, which reported 69 and 67 per- cent, respectively, voting for Mondale. The—Coalition told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that its own tallies showed . 44 to 46 percent of Jews nationally voting for Re- agan. Preliminary returns from a nationwide American Jewish Congress exit survey of Jewish voters showed a 70-30 split favoring Mondale. The Michigan figures were based on 228 respondents at the polls, according to Ruth Rosenbaum, executive direc- tor of the Michigan Region ,of the AJCongress. Although the numbers did not appear to vary widely among the various polls na- tionally, they were , vehe- mently contested. "I don't recall," said Mil- ton Himmelfarb, director of in- formation and research serv- ices for the American Jewish Committee in New York, in all my years with the AJC, so much contentiousness about the numbers. "A lot of Republicans were disappointed," he said. "There was not much of a rise in Jewish voting for Reagan. In fact, compared with 1980, when there was a 'punish Car- ter' vote and Anderson siphoned off so much, there was a slight fall. It was a contest of nega- tives; a question of what alarms or displeases you more. Jackson was a metaphor for the Democrats. Falwell was a metaphor for the Republi- cans." Some observers felt that Jews were worried that the apparent slight effect of the Jewish vote on Reagan's land- slide victory means that Jews will be discounted or worse, re- jected, by the party in power. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Ameri- can Jewish Congress analysts reported that their survey, conducted regionally across the country by AJCongress representatives who ques- tioned voters as they left the polls, showed the following: • Concern for Israel re- mains strong among Jewish voters, but Israel did not play a significant role in Jewish vot- ing patterns this year because both Presidential candidates Michigan Jews favored Walter Mondale over Ronald Reagan, 69-31 percent. were perceived as being sym- pathetic to Israel. • Jesse Jackson's state- ments and behavior in the - campaign and Reagan's sup- port for close ties between religion and government wor- ried many Jewish voters. • Social justice issues, such as the needs of the poor and aged, continue to be a key factor in explaining the Jewish vote. AJCongress analysts felt that while Jewish voters may not be as liberal as they were 20 or 30 years ago, their eco- nomic status continues to play far less of a role than it does for other sectors of the voting population. As a result, the Jewish community continues to vote disproportionately lib- eral. Indeed, one Jewish lob- byist in Washingto observed that "Jews continue to emu- late WASPS while voting like Puerto Ricans." The American Jewish Committee is working on a de- finitive "1984 National Sur- vey of American Jews" that will yield a reading on Jewish political values, said re- searcher Himmelfarb.- He would not venture an estimate of when the survey would be complete. The Jewish lineup in Congress Washington — Senators Rudy tion of John Miller, a Republican Boschwitz (R-Minn.) and Carl former television commentator in Levin (D-Mich.), the only two of Washington. the eight Jews in the Senate up for The re-election of Levin, a lib- election this year, were both re- eral Democrat, and Boschwitz, a elected. A third Jew running for Conservative Republican, means the Senate, Edythe Harrison, a the Jewish contingent in the Se- Democrat, was defeated in Vir- nate remains at four Democrats ginia by Sen. John Warner, a Re- and four Republicans. The other publican. incumbents are: Chick Hecht In the House, Elliott Levitas (R-Nev.); Frank Lautenberg (D- (D-Ga.); a five-term Con- N.J.); Howard Metzenbaum (D- gressman, was the only one of 30 Ohio); Warren Rudman (R-N.H.); Jews seeking re-election to be de- , Arlen Specter (R-Penn.); and Ed- feated. The number of Jews in the ward Zorinsky (D - Neb.). House stands at 30, with the elec- Continued on Page 22