The Muslim Vote?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I wonder what the assumption that the Muslim vote (if there even was such a thing at the time) was heavily for Bush in 2000 is based on. A lot of assumptions about the voting patterns of small minority groups are based on the established voting patterns of the group (and sometimes only part of it) in one particular area, and an assumption that what is true there, must be true of everywhere. Exit poll figures are less than useless for small minorities as well and specific surveys often get the balance drastically wrong. Of course we can tell that the Arab vote in the Detroit metropolitan area voted for Bush in 2000, for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008, but...