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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1988
Ticket-Splitting Evident
In Suburban Jewish Vote
KIMBERLY LIFTON
Staff Writer
A
n analysis of Jewish
voting patterns in De-
troit's northwest
suburbs shows that Jews who
cast ballots for President-
elect George Bush split their
tickets in other races.
A breakdown of voting
results from one of the largest
Jewish-populated
neighborhoods, Rolling Oaks
in Farmington Hills, shows
that Detroit Jews who chose
Bush also favored Republican
Rep. William Broomfield to
Democratic challenger Gary
Kohut, and Democratic Sen.
Donald Riegle, Jr. to
Republican challenger Jim
Dunn.
"There was enormous
ticket-splitting in this elec-
tion as always," said Dr.
Gilbert Kahn, a political
science professor at Kean Col-
lege of New Jefsey and presi-
dent of GNK Associates, a
New York-based public policy
consulting firm. "The
Republicans were successful
in promoting a national im-
age, but the local level is
closer to home, where tradi-
tional roots surface.
"Jews voted clearly tradi-
tionally," Dr. Kahn said. "The
Jackson factor declined
tremendously at the polls.
Dukakis did better among
Jews than any other
Democrat in recent elections."
Hyman Bookbinder, who
headed the Dukakis National
Jewish Leadership Council,
said that Dukakis fared bet-
ter than Walter Mondale, who
analysts say secured between
68 and 70 percent of the
Jewish vote when he lost to
President Ronald Reagan in
1984.
In contrast to the northwest
suburban vote, Oak Park's
Orthodox neighborhoods near
10 Mile Road and Greenfield
followed national Jewish
voting trends and clearly re-
mained Democratic, voting
2-1 for Dukakis over Bush
and for Riegle over Dunn.
Rep. Sander Levin defeated
his Republican challenger,
Dennis Flessland, in these
areas by an even wider
margin.
Nationally, various polls
estimate that the Democrats
swept the Jewish vote in
figures ranging from 68 per-
cent to 77 percent. The
American Jewish Congress
conducted the largest exit poll
of Jewish voters with nearly
4,000 voters surveyed in 12
major cities.
The survey showed Dukakis
leading Jewish voters by
three to one, even though 38
percent of those surveyed ex-
pressed concern over the role
of the Rev. Jesse Jackson in
the Democratic Party.
Fears spread among Jews
when Jackson tried to pass a
pro-Palestinian platform dur-
ing last summer's Democratic
National Convention in
Atlanta.
Other Oak Park neighbor-
hoods where Jews reside also
voted Democratic. Dukakis
secured 70 percent of Oak
Park's vote to Bush's 30 per-
cent. Yet Dukakis won by a
smaller margin in one heavi-
ly Jewish area south of 10
Mile Road and Church, leav-
ing Mayor Charlotte Roths-
tein questioning the historic
Democratic loyalties of the
city.
"That was a surprise,"
Rothstein said. "It seems
there may be a swing toward
Republicans in that area."
Across the country, analysts
have speculated that younger
voters including younger
Jews may be moving to the
political right. Yet Henry
Siegman, executive director
for the American Jewish Con-
gress, said it is a myth that
Jews are moving to the
political right.
"It should be clear to the
most hardened ne o -
conservatives that despite
their admonitions, the
American Jewish community
has simply refused to aban-
don its traditional commit-
ment to liberal values."
Opinions vary on the sub-
ject of Jewish support.
Although Dukakis appeared
to have secured the Orthodox
Jewish vote in Detroit,
Market Opinion Research in
Detroit, headed by Bush's
chief pollster Bob Teeter,
found different results on the
national level.
The firm polled more than
4,000 Jewish voters in six
states and found that Bush
gained the overwhelming
support of Orthodox Jews
throughout the country. Ten
percent of those polled iden-
tified themselves as Orthodox
Jews. Of those, 75 percent
voted for Bush.
Conservative and Reform
respondents, however, cast
ballots for Dukakis, according
to the firm. Just 28 percent of
Conservative respondents
and 24 percent of Reform
Jews voted for Bush.
The poll also showed that
Bush fared poorly among
Jewish women. Of Jewish
women polled over age 40,
just 20 percent cast ballots for
Bush.
The AJCongress exit poll
shows that 40 percent of the
Jewish Democrats said they
were concerned over
Jackson's role in the party,
compared to 69 percent of
Jewish Republicans. But 55
percent of the Jewish
Democrats said they were
more concerned that the
religious right would- in-
fluence the Republican Party.
"It is clear that American
Jewish concerns about Jesse
Jackson's role in the
Democratic Party were
outweighed by their concern
about the role of the religious
right in the Republican Par-
ty and the implications of
that role for the country," said
Robert K. Lifton, AJCongress
president.
The AJCongress in a few
weeks will release a final
analysis, which will include
statistics on the Jewish vote
in smaller communities.
Palestinian Says Arabs
Are Ready For Peace
ELIZABETH KAPLAN
Staff Writer
D
eath haunts the
streets in Gaza and
the West Bank where
Palestinians and Israelis kill
each other in the nearly year-
old intafida.
Yet prospects for peace in
the Middle East have never
been better, according to
Nabeel Abraham, lecturer in
anthropology at Henry Ford
Community College.
Speaking Sunday before
Labor Zionist Alliance
Branch 960, Abraham, a
Palestinian American, said
one partner to the conflict is
eager to make peace.
"If you look at a broad spec-
trum of Arab opinion — with
a few exceptions — you would
find a serious readiness to
come to a political settle-
ment," he said.
Yet Israel and the United
States "are not ready for
peace," Abraham said. "And
that's a tragedy because those
two parties wield a lot of
power."