Ethnic Minorities Supported Kerry Over Bush: "Nearly 60 percent of white Americans chose Bush, effectively giving him the three-million-vote margin that decided the election, according to the polls which found that, of this group, more than three out of four self-identified fundamentalist Christians, nearly 80 percent of whom cast their ballots for the president, were the most supportive sub-group.
African Americans, who constituted about 12 percent of the total vote this year and turned out in record numbers in critical swing states, particularly Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, voted by nearly a nine-to-one ratio for Kerry.
According to independent polls and Republican estimates, 11 percent of black voters chose Bush, which actually constituted a slight improvement over the level of support he received from them in 2000 � nine percent.
A higher percentage of Jewish voters � particularly Orthodox Jews and Russian �migr�s � also voted for Bush this year. The exit poll figures range from 20 percent to 25 percent. In 2000, against then-Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites), Bush received only 19 percent of Jewish-American votes. "
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