Poll: Most American Jews support Obama's election for a second term

An opinion poll released on Tuesday that American Jews strongly support the election of President Barack Obama for a second term, although the support of the Jews declined since he was elected the first time.The survey, conducted by the Institute for Research religious year that 62 percent of Jewish voters said they would like to re-election of Obama compared with 30 percent prefer to win the candidate belongs to the Republican Party in the elections to be held in November.Jews represent only two percent of the U.S. population, but no matter how their support for Obama, and they strongly support the Democratic Party and are concentrated in the states likely in the elections, such as Pennsylvania and Florida, the two are important to Obama's efforts to win a second term.The President is under criticism from Democratic to Republican presidential candidates who claim that it was not a supporter of Israel.The poll showed that public support for Obama at the same level almost at the same stage of his campaign in 2008, when he was competing with Hillary Clinton win the Democratic nomination.But support for Obama among Jews declined from 78 percent obtained in the 2008 election when he defeated Republican candidate John McCain.A poll-General of the Institute of Religious Research 51 percent of Jewish voters, say the economy is the most important issue in the 2012 election.And four percent said that Israel is the most important issue, while two percent say that Iran, which the West suspects that its nuclear program is a cover for making nuclear weapons is the first case.The poll of 1,004 people over the age of 18 years, and interviews were conducted via the Internet in the period between 23 February and the fifth of March, and has a margin of error of five percentage points.