2/23/15, "Seven in 10 Americans Continue to View Israel Favorably," Gallup Poll, Lydia Saad
"Israel has retained its broadly favorable image in the U.S. over the past year. Seventy percent of Americans now view that country favorably, and 62% say they sympathize more with the Israelis than the Palestinians in the Mideast conflict. By contrast, 17% currently view the Palestinian Authority favorably, and 16% sympathize more with the Palestinians.
These attitudes, from Gallup's Feb. 8-11 World Affairs survey, are unchanged from a year ago, suggesting that neither the evident friction between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, nor the 50-day conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip last year, greatly affected how each is perceived in the U.S."...
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From 2014 to 2015, approval of Israel increased among Republicans and Independents and decreased among Democrats:
2/24/15, "Gallup Records Significant Drop in Democrats’ Sympathy for Israel," CNS News, P. Goodenough
"A Gallup poll last month found that, while most Jewish Americans continue to identify as Democrats, the number has been slowly declining since 2008, the year Obama was elected to the White House.
In 2008, 71 percent of American Jews identified as Democrat; in 2014 the number had dropped to 61 percent....
In 2012, 69 percent of American Jews supported Obama while 30 percent supported his GOP rival, Mitt Romney....
In 2008, 22 percent of American Jews identified as Republicans; in 2014 29 percent did, Gallup reported.
In the 2008 presidential election, Jewish Americans supported Obama by 78 percent and his opponent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), by 22 percent....
The proportion of Democrats who sympathize more with Israel than with Palestinians in the Mideast conflict dropped ten points this year to 48 percent, according to a new poll by Gallup....
By contrast Republican sympathy for Israel over the Palestinians rose to 83 percent, continuing a trend that has risen from the low 50s in the late-1990s. Only in its 2010 poll did Gallup record a higher GOP sympathy for Israel, at 85 percent....
In addition, the percentage of Democrats viewing Israel favorably also dropped – by 14 points – over the past year, from 74 percent to 60, the poll found....
When the views of Americans of all political persuasions are taken into account, since 9/11 Americans have favored Israel by between 59 (2004) and 72 percent (2014). Over the same period, Americans’ favorable views of the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) has ranged from a low of 11 percent (2006) to a high of 27 (2005).
In the latest poll, 70 percent of Americans overall said they view Israel favorably, and 62 percent said they sympathize more with the Israelis than the Palestinians. Only 17 percent viewed the P.A. favorably, and 16 percent sympathized more with the Palestinians than the Israelis."...
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