American Muslims Overwhelmingly Backing Kerry; Major Shift from 2000

[Nicholas_J]

American Muslim voters are overwhelmingly supporting Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry over Republican George W. Bush, according to a new American Muslim Poll conducted by Zogby International for Georgetown University’s Muslims in the American Public Square (Project MAPS). By a margin of 76% to 7%, Muslims back the Kerry/Edwards ticket over the incumbent Bush/Cheney ticket. This is a stark reversal of fortunes from the 2000 election for Mr. Bush. The poll consisted of a telephone survey of 1,700 Muslims, and an over sample of 146 face-to-face interviews of African-American Muslims. The margin of error is +/-2.3 percentage points.

“This contrasts sharply with the 2000 election, when Mr. Bush garnered 42% of the Muslim vote versus 31% for Democrat Al Gore,” said Dr. Zahid Bukhari, director of Project MAPS. Zogby International and Project MAPS conducted the first American Muslim Poll in November 2001 with a margin of error of +/-2.4%.

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This is the third ethnic group that Bush has lost support from, or who now support Kerry reported in polls in the last week.

Bush's support from Jewish voters has falling significantly from Decembers polls, Bush is losing support among Cuban voters in Florida, and now Muslims have completely switched over from supporting Bush in 2000 to supporting Kerry in 2004.

In fact many of the Iraqi's in Michican who supported Bush at the invasion of Iraq have now switched camp and no longer support Bush's invasion and many have switched to support Kerry.