Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Jodi Kantor of the New York Times Edition)
Jodi Kantor of the New York Times should clearly find another, very different profession.
Outsourced to Matthew Yglesias:
Matthew Yglesias: A Chosen Drift: Looks like contra Jodi Kantor, Jewish voting behavior has been trending left over the past several cycles. It's curious, then, that The New York Times would run an article stating that "in recent presidential elections, Jews have drifted somewhat to the right"...
John Sides has a graph:
The Monkey Cage: Are Jews Drifting to the Right?: I took the state-level exit polls for each presidential election from 1988-2004 and combined them into one big file for each election year. This produces relatively large samples of Jewish voters (~1,000 each year). Here is the percentage of Jewish voters choosing the Democratic candidate:
