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Exit Poll of American Voters in Israel Shows Huge Favor for Romney

Nov. 2, 2012 9:18am Sharona Schwartz

iVoteIsrael Exit Poll of Absentee Voters in Israel Shows Huge Favor for Romney over Obama

Photo credit: iVoteIsrael via Times of Israel

U.S. citizens who have already cast their absentee ballots in Israel have voted massively in favor of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama.

This result parallels the pro-Romney stance of Israelis in general as surveys in recent days have shown.

Of the Americans living in Israel who have already voted, 85% voted for Romney, while only 14% voted for Obama. This, according to an exit poll commissioned by iVoteIsrael, a group that was formed this year to help U.S. citizens residing in Israel register to vote. The group says 80,000 have voted so far compared with 20,000 Americans from Israel who voted in 2008, a four-fold increase.

These overseas voters applied for ballots in 49 states; however, the battleground states are of particular interest. iVoteIsrael says some 7,500 Israel-based Americans who voted are registered in the state of Florida, 3,500 in Ohio and 3,500 in Pennsylvania.

With talk of a possible Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, hints from the Palestinians that they want to renew their UN statehood bid and ongoing threats emerging from newly radicalized neighbors in the wake of the “Arab Spring,” it’s no wonder the stakes are high in this election for those citizens living in Israel. The exit poll revealed “61% of voters from Israel cited Jerusalem and Peace Process negotiations as a primary motivating factor for voting.”

More specifically, iVoteIsrael reports that 21% of absentee voters surveyed said they were voting primarily on the issue of Iran.

Israel-based turnout is significantly higher than in other countries, as iVote Israel explains in a press release:

Internationally American ex-Pats typically have a 5% turnout rate. If those trends continue, the American vote from Israel will represent 20-25% of the total ex-Pat community from around the world, further solidifying the unique nature of the relationship between the US and Israel, which is not limited to the diplomatic and strategic levels but also, at the grassroots and electoral level.

“This connection between countries demonstrates the breadth of the unique relationship between the two countries, and iVoteIsrael is proud to have played a role in illustrating this connection to the public,” commented [iVote National Director Elie] Pieprz.

The poll is being criticized by Democrats. The Times of Israel reports:

Israeli Democrats, however, said iVoteIsrael’s survey was “slanted and extremely partial,” in part because the polling sample included only voters who cast their ballots through the organization and because it said iVoteIsrael was primarily active among more conservative-leaning Orthodox communities.

iVoteIsrael, which hosted 35 “voter assistant drives” and eight debates between Democrats and Republicans, says it is entirely nonpartisan. But the organization has come under fire for what some observers said was a pro-Romney bias in its “get out the vote” campaign. Some of its key staffers have right-wing political backgrounds, and the nonprofit behind the campaign has ties to right-leaning US-Jewish billionaire Ronald Lauder.

At a press conference announcing the findings, iVoteIsrael said similar findings to the overall results also applied in two battleground states, Ohio (84.4% for Romney) and Florida (85.8% for Romney). Its findings, it said, were based on the “only authoritative exit poll” conducted among actual voters living in Israel.

Hillel Schenker who heads Democrats Abroad Israel complained to the Times of Israel that iVoteIsrael set up its survey boxes primarily in religious and conservative-leaning areas like Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion settlements in the Judea section of the West Bank. He also contends that Democratic voters applied for their absentee ballots on their own, without using iVoteIsrael’s services.

There are 160,000 eligible U.S. voters living in Israel according to The New York Times.

At its press conference, iVoteIsrael reported that about 50% percent of respondents described themselves as Orthodox Jews, and another 22% said called themselves ultra-Orthodox.

The poll sampled 1,572 absentee voters and has a margin of error of 2.5%.

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stealthman
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:39pm
Two votes for Romney in Missouri for two Americans residing in Israel…. And I was not polled. We just sent in our ballots three week ago. I have never heard of this group IVote Israel. In 2010 I sent in my absentee ballot in the midterms for the US Senator from Missouri, Roy Blunt. He won in a landslide, and Akin would have too if he weren’t such a Medical Neanderthal on the subject of pregnancy during rape. I sent the ballot in Express Mail since it was 8 days prior to the election. On every other occasion that I used Express Mail, the letter spent less than 24 hours in US Customs. I could trace it on line. The ballot spent four days in US Customs!! and then it was released the evening before the election and did not arrive at its Election destination until Wednesday morning. Got the picture?? If this is the type of voter fraud for a midterm, what will it be like this time??

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 1:41pm
Are they Israelis or are they Americans?
A Jew or a Cristian voting for Obama would be like a Satan Worshiper voting for Pat Robertson.

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- swamp_donkey
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 7:27pm
  yep its true hes winning in the cayman islands as well , just america apparently he is struggling
  
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- verbatim
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:54pm
  These are Americans who have made “aliyah”: they have moved to Israel mostly (but not necessarily exclusively) for religious reasons, to be part of the biblical directive to actually live in the land of Israel. Although they have moved to Israel, they are still very proud of being Americans, and as you can see from the exit poll results, they are concerned for the future of America.
  
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Nprspktv
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:42am
“Hillel Schenker … contends that Democratic voters applied for their absentee ballots on their own, without using iVoteIsrael’s services” complaining that the exit poll is biased. May very well be but this ex-pat voted for Rommey with mine. God bless the U.S.A. One of two homes that I love!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:12am
  Which one are you loyal to? You can not serve two masters. Each has their own special interests.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:25am
  Well slanted and partisan was exactly the poll sharona was looking for, so her research paid off. As far as U.S. citizens residing in Israel register to vote… there should be some limitations in terms of how long you can live outside the US and still vote in our elections, unless of course you are stationed on a military base or some other government worker. The dual citizenship status with Israel is questionable at best, particularly when you consider where their true nationalistic alliance is.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:47am
  @ The Jerk – good point. Based on the U.S. Department of State regulation on dual citizenship (7 FAM 1162), the Supreme Court of the United States has stated that dual citizenship is a “status long recognized in the law” and that “a person may have and exercise rights of nationality in two countries and be subject to the responsibilities of both. The mere fact he asserts the rights of one citizenship does not without more mean that he renounces the other,” (Kawakita v. U.S., 343 U.S. 717) (1952). In Schneider v. Rusk 377 U.S. 163 (1964), the US Supreme Court ruled that a naturalized U.S. citizen has the right to return to his native country and to resume his former citizenship, and also to remain a U.S. citizen even if he never returns to the United States.
  
  Time to rid ourselves of this monster.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:28pm
  Romney is allot more loyal to Israel than Obama is. American presidents are suppose to be loyal and only care about America, these people are traitors,
  
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- MN NICE
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 3:22pm
  It appears that some are more concerned with American CITIZENS voting from overseas than illegals and/or voter fraud from within our own borders
  
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Pork_Anvil
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:33am
Pretty sure that Israel is the ONLY country in the world that prefers Romney to Obama.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:40am
  Pork, Yeah, just go along with the leaders of Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and other such nations having already backed 0bama, who cares about Israel, right? Sounds like you and THE_JERK are in cahoots. LOL, naturally you are standing in good company…..sarcasm off.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:43am
  Fact is, we shouldn’t care what any country in the world thinks, including Israel. We’re Americans, not Israeli’s.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:55am
  NAVIN, you are welcome to become that island unto yourself.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:55am
  No wiki or hitler facts jihad jerk? Facts is, you are belligerent in your hatred.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:10am
  Fubard, what part of this statement is false: “Fact is, we shouldn’t care what any country in the world thinks, including Israel. We’re Americans, not Israeli’s.”
  
  So, it appears to those with a hint of commonsense, that you are more propagandist than intellect.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:17am
  JERK : how about more of the “America firs” t minus the Israeli snark ? You sound so much like a “progressive” when go down that Hate Lane. Americans are just better than that which is why the Obama Hate Crowd is so abhorrent and unAmerican…
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:30am
  Barber2: “JERK : how about more of the “America firs” t minus the Israeli snark ? You sound so much like a “progressive” when go down that Hate Lane.”
  
  If you re-read my remark, you will find that nothing hateful was stated. Progressives read into the statements of others. So, to me, your logic is upside down; another progressive trait.
  
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bekhiet
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:26am
I’m shocked that any Jewish person would vote for Obama.

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woodyee
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:23am
14% voted in favor of their own destruction.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:31am
  Why should this be a story… propaganda? Who cares what people living in one of the tiniest, smallest, puniest, nations of the world, Israel, do? It is this incessant focus on Israel that causes so much foolishness in our Middle East policy.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:45am
  Incessant focus on the part of whom? American and Israeli relations are pretty normal, excepting Gaybama. Also, excepting the constant harping by Israel’s neighbors about their intent of wiping them off the map, and their daily assaults via murder, rocket fire and abject terrorism to prove their point, there isn’t much “incessant focus” to peak the interest of anyone.
  
  You, on the other hand, are like a race horse at the starting gate, waiting for the subject line of a story to bear the words ‘Israel’ or ‘Jew’, to pounce. Why YOUR incessant focus to belittle and/or demean them?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:58am
  Woodyee-
  Well said, once again. Poor poor jihad jerk. Lalalalalalalala.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:20am
  Woodyee: “You, on the other hand, are like a race horse at the starting gate, waiting for the subject line of a story to bear the words ‘Israel’ or ‘Jew’, to pounce. Why YOUR incessant focus to belittle and/or demean them?”
  
  Fact is, Sharona Schwartz wrote this piece, not me. I can only respond, react. The numbers tell the real story. How many pro-Zionist, pro-Israel, articles appear on this site? How many critical of Zionism, Israel, appear on this site? There is no balance. They don’t even try to fake it, or hide it. This describes incessant. Thus, unlike you, and the other propagandists, I base my argument in fact.
  
  Propagandists do not like fact.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:55am
  @The Jerk – my response was inspired by yours, not the story or it’s writer. The fact that you’re so concerned with the number of “pro-Israeli” articles that appear on The Blaze only serves to prove my point that you are incessantly focused on the subject of Israel.
  
  Would you say that the Blaze is incessantly focused on Romney? On Obammy? Compared to the number of stories that have appeared on those subjects, or to Benghazi, in relation to the number of stories on Israelis, or Jews, and anyone would draw the conclusion that you are VERY focused…like a laser beam, on slamming Jews.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:13pm
  Woodyee: “@The Jerk – my response was inspired by yours, not the story or it’s writer. The fact that you’re so concerned with the number of “pro-Israeli” articles that appear on The Blaze only serves to prove my point that you are incessantly focused on the subject of Israel.”
  
  Not making sense. Fact is, you questioned my use of the word incessant. So, I gave you the logic as to why I used that word. To me it’s sound, otherwise you’d have revised your first argument.
  
  Second, I am concerned with Israel, and it’s abundant, overwhelming, pro-Zionist presentations in our media. I am concerned because it affects American policy, American lives, and American wealth. Israel is a troubled nation. We do not need to be associated with a troubled nation. Trouble brings more trouble.
  
  And, I stand on firm historical ground. Truman was warned of outcome, before he gave American support to Israel. Our reality was described to him at that time. He ignored the warnings for personal, political, gain. We are, today, paying a high price for that selfish act.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:55pm
  @The Jerk – I disagree, but respect your opinion and your way of communicating it.
  
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Pork_Anvil
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:21am
Wait wait wait! I thought you said it was “bad” for presidential candidates to be liked by other countries!

LOL, Romney support is big in Israel. No duh. He’s a republican who’s itching for more war.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:36am
  PORK_ANVIL, Just where have you heard or read regarding that absurd claim? Nobody is saying that other nations should not like our candidates, or even those politicians serving in office. 0bama himself has pissed off so many in other countries and that is what we have been saying. He is anything but the uniter that he has claimed. He’s nothing more than a wedge with an agenda.
  What countries have you heard of that Romney wants to start a war with? It seems that its been 0bama with his kill lists, threatening to bomb Pakistan during his first campaign, gun running to terrorists in Libya, and shall I continue?
  
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- desert buckeye
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:39am
  And who told you this?
  What’s the matter? Is the I Love Lucy marathon on comercial break? Simpleton!
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:46am
  Pork_Anvil…isn’t that sort of like a game between gays?
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:16am
I wish the USA as a whole had those numbers.According to today’s Rasmussen Report,this election is going to be uncomfortably close.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_scott_rasmussen/an_unpredictable_end_to_a_very_predictable_election

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Cavallo
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:59am
Not surprising. Why would you support someone that looks to destroy the place you live and hand it over to misogynistic murderous Islamic cavemen?

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Gonzo
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:54am
I’m sure the Chicago thugs are feverishly looking for a way not to count those votes.

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- pjmarshake
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:58am
  The aircraft carrying these ballots was shot down… Oh wait, that’s the military!
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:39am
Dang, is this true that the Jews in Israel are waking up? Transcend this to the State of Florida, NY.

I cannot understand why the Jews are so slow in waking up; seems WWII would have been enough to wake up anyone? Are they part of the 47-percenters?

Seems the driver of most of the 47-percenters is the ones who get the most money-handout; they think their best bet is Obama? OMG!

Vote Romney 11/06/2012.

After Eight, Must Vacate!

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USALOVER2011
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:29am
My question is…..who are the 14% that voted for obarry? Who and why!?!?!

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- songbird7
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:40am
  learn about the term – KAPO
  
  it’s a historical Phenomenon that belong only to the israeli / jewish people
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:10am
  Songbird – I looked it up. Thanks for the tip on “Kapo.” I knew they existed, but never knew what they were called. In reading, I also learned, for the first time, that nearly ALL of the Nazi collaborators hunted down by Israeli’s were kapo’s!
  
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:27am
Is God going to Judge Israel nope. God isn’t going to judge the U.S either. Nope, God isn’t going to Judge, therefore the people who think they are gods, they will deem themselves the judges, and they will make judgment.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:32am
  And the judge will be judged.
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:27am
Did they just now realize that Obama is a longtime member of the Muslim brotherhood……..or what…

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momrules
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:26am
Would you like to see how Muslims in America are voting?

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/guess-who-u-s-muslims-are-voting-for/

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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:39am
  Castro, Chavez, The American Communist Party and the the Muslims are all backing him and people can’t see it. It’s jaw dropping.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:19am
  Gonzo: agree. Since when did the White House have the support of the international Far Left like Re-Set Putin ?? Oh, I know: since Obama started to OCCUPY IT.
  
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