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If  Obama loses the election next week Sarah Sliverman would like to be able to blame just this one more thing on the Jews. She theorizes that Florida’s victory for Bush came down to a few “Bubby’s” and “Zedies” wandering out of the nearly monolithic Jewish voting block and going Republican.  She goes on to urge that younger Jews make a trip down to Florida to convince their grandparents to do the right thing this time around.

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But according to a recent Gallup poll if calamity falls on election day Sarah won’t be able to blame Jewish grandparents. As it turns out younger Jews are more likely to vote Mccain with only 19% of Jews over 55 planning to vote Republican as compared with 29% of Jews 18 to 34 hailing Pailin.

Don't blame the Bubbys! Younger Jews are more likely to be conservative.

And if you’ve spent any time in the Jewish community lately this will ring true. Younger Jews feel less attachment to the left-leaning  and progressive sentiments that were carried in by their refugees grandparents and great-grantparents who came fleeing oppression. As a more fully assimilated demographic, younger Jews do not have as strong an identification with the underdogs and have greater ideological lattitude to pick a political philosophy for reasons beyond their Jewishness.

The Zeides aren't the Jews stealing the vote.