Generational Gap In Russian Jewish Vote Emerges

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A new report in The Jewish Week finds increasing generational voting differences between older and younger Russian voters in Southern Brooklyn.

The report, which centers around a study by Sam Kliger, a Russian-born sociologist who analyzes the community, indicates that while older and elderly Russians vote predominantly Republican, the younger voting slice of the Russian block is more likely to be undecided and consequently, more open to the Democratic alternative.

While on a whole Kliger’s numbers show that the 350,000 strong Russian community based in New York City, Long Island, Westchester County, and Northern and Central New Jersey are likely to vote for Republican Mitt Romney by a margin of 4-1, younger voters in this block (ages 18-35) are evenly split in the upcoming election.

A discussion in the article with Democratic Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny illuminated this point,

Interviewed by phone, Brook-Krasny said he’s long predicted a 50-50 split among younger Russian-speaking Jews when it comes to presidential elections, followed in the near future by a majority of that population voting Democratic.

“The more educated people [in the community] get, the more liberal they vote,” the lawmaker said. [Read more]

We agree with the good Assemblyman, but not without a qualification -- the more our children are educated by Marxists in today's factories of indoctrination, otherwise known as American colleges, the more liberal they are bound to become.

posted by: jrtelegraph

Comments

[victor herzberg]

I was searching for exactly this type of information on the web and my serach brough me here, so thank you for making it available. But three lines lines which represent JRT reaction to this data were so funny and absurd, that for a second I though I was reading The Onion or some other satirical publications, so decided to share my amusement
According to JRT, our children who went to American colleges were subjected to Marxist indoctrination there and that why many of them now hold liberal views, while their parents (who know better) vote predominantly for the Republicans, because they were lucky to go to Soviet Universities and thus not being subjected to Marxist indoctrination.
You really can't argue with this logic;-)

[Eric-Odessit]

To certain extent it is also the parents' fault. I know a lot of people who don't pay attention to what their kids are taught, as long as they get good grades and later get into good colleges. And then the parents to their horror find out that their children's political views reflect pretty much what they themselves were force-fed in the Soviet schools.
We have to watch what our kids are taught, otherwise we will have little "Young Pioneers" on our hands.
Eric.