Exit polls from MSNBC, CNN and Fox have shown that�Barack Obama received 78 percent of the Jewish vote in Tuesday's election, whilst John McCain, received 21%.
The polls all put Jews at 2% of the poll sample.
In 2004, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry won 74% of the Jewish vote, and in 2000, Al Gore received 79%.
The MSNBC data found the numbers amongst Christians in Tuesday's election were far closer, with 45 percent of Protestants and other Christians and 54% of Catholics voting for Obama. Together, they made up 81%of the poll sample.
Fifty-six percent of female voters and 49% of male voters chose Obama, making up 53 percent and 47% of the vote respectively, according to the poll. An overwhelming 66% of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted for Obama.
The poll found a vast majority of voters, some 70%, to be "very/somewhat worried" about the prospect of "another major terrorist attack" in the US, and 85% of those polled said they were "worried" about the "direction of the [US] economy in the next year."
A total of 36% of voters said they approved of the US-Iraq war, and 63% disapproved. Of Obama voters only 13% said they approved.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, executive director of the J Street lobby group on Tuesday called Obama's victory a sign that the campaign waged against him by Republican Jews comprised "baseless smears."
"American Jews resoundingly rejected the two-year, multi-million dollar campaign of baseless smears and fear waged against him by the right wing of our community," he said. "Surrogates and right-wing political operatives in our community stopped at nothing in their efforts to sway Jewish voters against Obama."
"We can only hope that these results put to rest for good the myth that fear and smear campaigns - particularly around Israel - can be an effective political weapon in the Jewish community," he added.
(Sources: Jerusalem Post / Haaretz)
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