General Discussion

found what you claimed:

I think CAIR's results are skewed (I think they had a massive undercount of Harris votes) far more than the other two.



In historic shift, American Muslim and Arab voters desert Democrats

https://www.voanews.com/a/in-historic-shift-american-muslim-and-arab-voters-desert-democrats/7854995.html

In a historic shift, Muslim and Arab Americans broke with two decades of Democratic loyalty, splitting most of their votes between President-elect Donald Trump and third-party candidates in Tuesday’s presidential election, according to preliminary findings of two prominent advocacy groups. The exodus, fueled by anger over the Biden administration’s handling of the war in Gaza, helped Trump win key battleground states, especially Michigan, as he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to win a second term in the White House.

A nationwide exit poll of more than 1,300 voters by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) found that significantly less than 50% of Muslim voters backed Harris. That compares with an estimated 65% to 70% that reportedly voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. The lion’s share of the Muslim vote went to Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate who advocated for ending U.S. military support for Israel, or Trump, who received the backing of several Arab and Muslim community leaders and elected officials in Michigan.

A full picture of the Muslim vote is yet to emerge. The CAIR survey was at odds with the Associated Press’s Votecast survey, which found the vice president captured 63% of Muslim votes overall. But voting patterns found by the CAIR poll marked a sharp departure from the last 20 years during which Muslim Americans had overwhelmingly supported the Democratic ticket, according to Robert McCaw, CAIR’s director of government affairs. “This is the first time in more than 20 years that the Muslim community has been split between three candidates,” McCaw said in an interview with VOA.

The shift in the Muslim vote echoed among Arab American voters, who had backed Democratic presidential nominees over Republican candidates 2-to-1 for more than two decades, said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. The group did not do an exit poll. But going into the election, its polling indicated that the Arab vote would be split 42% to 41% between Trump and Harris, and Zogby said the election result likely reflected that chasm.

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