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# Writer had a mind bloc
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/writer-had-a-mind-bloc-editor/
- Published: 2007-01-23T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:53:27.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ken Karmiole Santa Monica*

I had to laugh at a recent letter you printed by local resident John O. Legreid (“What are we willing to pay for war?” page 4, Jan. 19) in which he states that the “war in Iraq is the Bush payoff for the Jewish bloc vote.” What ridiculous nonsense! There are now 300 million people in America, of which there are six million Jews, and they represent 2 percent of the voting public. Or, better said, 98 percent of Americans who vote are not Jews. As a group, Jewish voters are quite liberal; haven’t we all heard the words “Jewish liberal” used repeatedly? In a recent scholarly article, 87 percent of Jews polled voted for Democrats. A “Jewish bloc vote” for George Bush? Absolute stupidity.

If you go to Google or any other search engine, you will find that in 2000 George Bush received the votes of only 19 percent of American Jews living in the U.S., and only 35 percent of American Jewish voters residing in Israel (a much smaller number of voters). In 2004, (John) Kerry received between 75 percent and 78 percent of the Jewish vote.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 23, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)