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survey of Muslim voters in six states has found one surprising result: Donald
Trump was the most popular Republican presidential candidate, despite his calls
for tighter surveillance of Muslims and limits on Muslim immigration. The poll,
not unexpectedly, found that 67 percent of the respondents support the
Democratic Party and 51 percent of them plan to vote for Hillary Clinton. Sen.
Bernie Sanders trailed with 22 percent. But of the 15 percent who said they
intended to vote for Republicans, Trump was the first choice, with more than 7
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More than 73 percent of respondents said they plan to
vote in their states’ primary elections, an increase from the 69 percent who
answered that way in a similar survey taken before the 2014 midterm elections.
Puzzling. Ibrahim Hooper, director of communications The survey, which was
commissioned by the Council on American Islamic Relations and carried out Jan.
26, comprised interviews with 2,000 registered Muslim voters in California,
Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas and Virginia – the states with the largest
Muslim populations in the United States. The council did not identify the
“independent automated call service provider” that undertook the survey. Robert
McCaw, the council’s government affairs manager, suggested that the increase in
respondents who said they planned to vote was likely “driven, at least in part,
by concern over the rise” in anti-Muslim rhetoric since terrorist attacks late
last year in Paris and San Bernardino, California. About 30 percent of the
respondents said “Islamaphobia” was their No. 1 concern. The economy and health
care ranked No. 2 and No. 3. Despite the concern over anti-Muslim feelings,
Trump was the most popular of the Republicans among the respondents – even with
his calls for closing down mosques, monitoring Muslims and barring them from
immigrating to the United States. Support for other Republicans was negligible:
Ted Cruz received 2 percent, Jeb Bush 1.57 percent and Rand Paul, Ben Carson,
Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina each received less than 1 percent. Ibrahim
Hooper, the council’s director of communications, called the Trump result
puzzling. “It is not unusual to find Muslim Republicans, because the two are
similarly socially conservative,” he said.
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