The Muslim Vote?

[Rob]

One thing that's kinda frustrating is the lack of concrete data on the Muslim vote in America. The sketchy info that's out there indicates that Bush carried Muslims in 2000 (with a strong showing for Arab-American Nader); they switched overwhelmingly to Kerry in 2004; and voted even more heavily for Obama in 2008.

I'm wondering if we have any better indicators than a handful of exit polls, though. i.e., do we have results for any precincts that are confirmed to be heavily Muslim? Dearborn, Michigan might be the place to look (I'm assuming that most of the ethnic Arabs in that city are, in fact, Muslims- I could be wrong...).

We have numbers for Hasidic Jews and Mormon Fundamentalists, damn it- why none for a much bigger religious group?

[Rob]

The problem is that Muslims tend not to congregate exclusively.

Understood, but I'd be shocked if there are no majority-Muslim precincts that, say, Alcon could track down.