Reply To: Why Are Torah Observant Jews Overwhelmingly Republican/Conservative?

Benignuman: You should have left it with your first reason alone and you’d be on the mark.

You vastly overrate both the preponderance as well as the effect of your second reason. Not as many Orthodox Jews primarily get their news from the radio as you imagine. This is especially the case with the more conservative believing Jews. Many of them even eschew radio altogether, just as the do television.

And even among the minority of Orthodox Jews who do listen to radio significantly, they by and large don’t simply accept anything they hear. Additionally, the radio itself isn’t as overall conservative as you seem to assume.

As a final point, are you consistent by similarly attributing the overwhelming liberalism of secular/atheist/irreligious/Reform/Conservative/OO Jews to their obtaining their news from television and other media that are extremely liberal?