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JTA is linking to the MSNBC exit polls:

Hillary Clinton won the Jewish vote in New Jersey, but the exit polls say her margin was slightly smaller than her win in New York. In N.J., Clinton won 63 percent of Jewish Democrats compared to 37 percent for Barack Obama.

Jews made up 9 percent of N.J.’s Democratic electorate.

NY:

According to the polling, conducted by Edison/Mitofsky, Clinton took 65 percent of Jewish Democrats in NY, compared to 33 percent for Barack Obama. That’s a wider gap than in Florida, where Clinton beat Obama 58 percent to 26 percent, with John Edwards pulling 13 percent.

In New York, Jews made up 16 percent of the Democratic electorate - about double the percentage of Jews in the Empire State’s overall population.

Elsewhere:

Despite losing overall in Massachusetts, Obama won the Jewish vote in the Bay State, 52 percent to 48 percent for Clinton. In Connecticut, which Obama won, he took 61 percent of the Jewish vote to 38 percent for Clinton.

Jewish turnout was disproportionately high: Jews comprised 16 percent of the Democratic electorate in New York, 10 percent in Connecticut, 9 percent in New Jersey, 6 percent in Massachusetts and 5 percent in California.

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