Four times as many Americans would refuse to vote for a Muslim presidential candidate as for a Jewish nominee, a new poll finds. The survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that 10 percent of Americans would not vote for an otherwise qualified Jewish presidential candidate, while 85 percent would.
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