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Super Tuesday: The Jewish Vote

JTA’s Ben Harris has a story breaking down the Jewish vote on Super Tuesday:

Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a major victory with Jewish Democrats in New York and New Jersey in Super Tuesday voting, Barack Obama won a majority of Jewish support in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the battle was close in California.

For those who don’t like reading, we make it easy for you with our “The Democratic Jewish Vote on Super Tuesday” map (thanks to JTA’s super duper director of digital media Dan Sieradski).

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Hillary wins Jewish vote in California (UPDATE: Not)

The exit polls are giving Hillary Clinton the win among Jewish Democrats in California, with 48 percent to Barack Obama’s 44 percent. Jews made up 5 percent of the Democratic electorate. [UPDATE: The figures were adjusted... Obama won with 49 percent, with Clinton at 47 percent and Edwards at 4 percent.]

Obama wins Jewish vote in Conn.

The exit polls say that Barack Obama took 61 percent of Jewish Dems in Connecticut, compared to 38 percent for Hillary Clinton. Jews made up 10 percent of the Democratic electorate there.

Obama wins Jewish vote in Mass.

Exit polls say Massachusetts is the first sate with a significant Jewish population to see its Jews voters go for Barack Obama. He won 52 percent of Jewish Democrats, with Hillary Clinton taking 48 percent.

Jews made up about 6 percent of the Democratic electorate in Massachusetts.

Hillary wins Jews in N.J.

UPDATE: This post has been changed to reflect new numbers up at MSNBC.

Hillary Clinton won the Jewish vote in New Jersey, but the exit polls say her margin was much slightly smaller than her win in New York. In N.J., Clinton won 56 63 percent of Jewish Democrats compared to 44 37 percent for Barack Obama.

Jews made up 9 percent of N.J.’s Democratic electorate.

Exit Poll: Big Jewish win for Hillary in N.Y.

UPDATE: This post has been changed to reflect new numbers up at MSNBC.

MSNBC now has exit polling up about the Jewish vote in New York.

According to the polling, conducted by Edison/Mitofsky, Hillary Clinton took 69 65 percent of Jewish Democrats, compared to 29 33 percent for Barack Obama. That’s a wider gap than in Florida, where Clinton beat Obama 58 percent to 26 percent, with John Edwards pulling 13 percent.

In New York, Jews made up 17 16 percent of the Democratic electorate — about double the percentage of Jews in the Empire State’s overall population.

Hillary wins N.Y., N.J. & Mass.

As expected, Hillary Clinton has taken three states with large Jewish populations: New York, New Jersey & Massachusetts.

Of course, the exact percentages and delegate breakdown are still unclear. And no sense yet how Jews or Jewish areas voted. Hopefully more on that tonight.

Supressing the Jewish vote?

Probably not. But still, this story out of Los Angeles is a little troubling.

Bernie Cade, the electoral inspector at the Westside Jewish Community Center, said the equipment hadn’t arrived, hours after polls opened.

Cade said he had not received voting machines or the ink that goes in them for any of the seven booths in the polling station. Dozens of people were sent to other polling places nearby, but Cade said a voting troubleshooter was on hand and the polling place was accepting hand-marked ballots.

Still, Cade said the process was slow, and that he was worried about more delays.