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While the overall results of the presidential election shocked pundits, journalists and pollsters, the breakdown of the Jewish vote contained little to be surprised about.

According to an independent national election night poll funded by the center-left pro-Israel group J Street, 70 percent of Jewish voters selected Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and 25 percent went for the winner, Republican Donald Trump.

Lynn Sweet

Those numbers closely resemble 2012, when 69 percent of Jewish voters went for President Barack Obama. However, the results of Nov. 8 do differ from other recent cycles — in 2008, 78 percent of Jewish voters favored Obama; 76 percent of Jewish voters cast their ballots for Democrat John Kerry in 2004, and 79 percent for Democrat Al Gore in 2000.

Clinton’s 70 percent among Jews “matches the 70 percent average vote share that Democratic candidates have received since exit polling began in 1972,” the report said.

According to the J Street poll, Clinton won a majority across all Jewish demographics, including age, education level and denomination.

“Hillary, in her concession speech this morning, summarized what happened when she said, ‘It seems that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought,’ ” Chicago Sun-Times D.C. bureau chief Lynn Sweet said on a Nov. 9 conference call organized by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Jewish Federations of North America.

Yet the Jewish community is not so divided. The domestic agenda of Jewish voters has remained steady, though that may not matter much in the immediate future, JTA editor in chief Andrew Silow-Carroll said on the same conference call.

Andrew Silow-Carroll

“The mainstream Jewish domestic agenda seems sort of irrelevant right now,” Silow-Carroll said, referencing the broad consensus among Jewish voters on issues such as health care and Social Security. “Between House, Senate, White House and Supreme Court, we will see a great reversal of many issues that matter to Jews. The Orthodox are a big exception.”

Domestic issues were high on the list of priorities for Jewish voters, the poll found.

Some 35 percent of Jews cited the economy as a top priority at the voting booth, according to the J Street poll. ISIS/terrorism and health care tied for second, both cited by 27 percent of Jewish voters. Other priorities included the Supreme Court (18 percent), Social Security/Medicare (18 percent) and immigration (15 percent).

Israel (9 percent) and the Iran nuclear deal (2 percent) were lower priorities for Jewish voters, according to the poll.

“On Israel, Trump seems like an unfinished project. A week ago he finally articulated an Israel policy, and it’s in line with the Orthodox Jews who drafted it for him.” Silow-Carroll said. “But he has also promised to pull the U.S. out of foreign entanglements. It’s impossible to say what’s likely from him.”

Jewish voters’ connections to the Democratic Party “run deep,” according to the poll’s summary, which showed that 62 percent voted in the Democratic primary as opposed to 18 percent in the Republican primary. Some 70 percent of Jewish voters selected Democrats for Congress, the poll showed, and 50 percent hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party, while 34 percent view it unfavorably. The poll showed that 17 percent have a favorable view of the Republican Party, compared with 65 percent unfavorable.

Obama was the most popular figure in the survey, with a 70 percent approval rating among Jewish voters — 17 percent higher than his national favorability rating. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a 41 percent favorable rating among American Jewish voters, the poll showed, as opposed to 28 percent unfavorable.