"Vote for the Mormon, not the Muslim" (church-front) sign stirs controversy..

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78. Well some synagogues are even worse than these churches at this

The Hasidic ultra-Orthodox communities in America, in places like the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn and Kiryas Joel, NY will literally vote >90% for whatever candidate the lead rabbi endorses. In 2000 they mostly supported Gore (his running mate no doubt helped) and those areas voted as strongly for Gore as black neighborhoods did. In 2004 they switched to backing Bush, and these were the strongest areas for Bush in the country. In 2008 most supported McCain and it continued, but Kiryas Joel is actually two loosely linked communities, and in one the rabbi endorsed Obama. So it voted about 60-40 for McCain, with the larger one being well over 90% for McCain and the other one voting like a black neighborhood for Obama. It'd be fascinating if it wasn't so creepy.

But that's a little different from this, as these people don't just go to synagogue together but all live together too, and it's really based on personal endorsements, not some religious organization directly.