Muslim Votes went 85.7% for Barack Obama re-Election in 2012

Poll: 85 Percent of Muslim Voters Picked President Obama


Published: 11/01/2013 10:47:28 PM GMT



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PrintE-mail to friend ( WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/9/2012 ) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released the resu (more)





( WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/9/2012 ) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released the results of an informal exit poll indicating that more than 85 percent of American Muslim voters picked President Obama in Tuesday's election.

[ NOTE: A similar CAIR exit poll in 2008 showed that 89 percent of American Muslim voters picked then-candidate Barack Obama. Two percent of respondents said they voted for Sen. John McCain.]



CAIR's email survey of more than 650 American Muslim voters indicates that just four percent of respondents cast their ballots for Mitt Romney.



Poll findings:



•95.5 of the Muslim voters said they went to the polls on November 6.



•85.7 percent cast their ballots to re-elect President Obama.



•4.4 percent of respondents said they voted for Mitt Romney.



•Just over two percent (2.2) of respondents said they voted for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. The same percentage (2.2) of respondents said they voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. [ NOTE: More than four percent of respondents declined to say who they voted for.]



•States with the highest number of survey respondents (in descending order) were California, New York, Texas, Virginia, Illinois, Florida, Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio.



•Of those who voted, 8.3 percent said they did so for the first time.



•41.5 percent said they consider themselves Democrats. A similar number, 40.6 percent, consider themselves politically independent. Only 7.4 percent said they are Republican.

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