Sixty percent of Maryland's Jews voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in this week's Democratic primaries in the state, where Sen. Barack Obama defeated her in the overall balloting, according to MSNBC exit polls. Every other religious group backed Sen. Obama.
Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski has asked community rabbis to encourage support for Sen. Clinton. Sen. Obama has been the subject of an e-mail hate campaign, charging that he is a Muslim. However, he has won the Jewish vote in several states, except in Sen. Clinton's home state of New York, and exit polls in California contradicted initial reports that Sen. Clinton won most of the Jewish vote there.