You know, the one group I don’t see ANY coverage of from either side are the Asians. I don’t see hardly any Asians on Glenn Beck. Among the freak show that was the left wing counter-Beck rally which had communists, socialists, unions, LGBT, hispanic, black, pink and purple people I didn’t see any Asian groups like the OCA for Chinese, Japanese or any other Asian groups.
The GOP traditionally puts in enormous efforts into getting into getting Hispanics and African Americans on board who are continuing to stick to Obama in OJ-like proportions in contrast to whites who are deserting the Obamacrats in droves. But nobody seems to notice that Asians only very recently slight tipped into the Democrats, probably because of all those “model minority” kids who got brainwashed in exchange for being let into America’s top (read most liberal) colleges. I don’t count, I went to MIT. Asians are still the only group anywhere near 50/50 on political split besides whites who are drifting towards GOP as the only group that doesn’t routinely use straight white christians as punching bags.
Here’s the question I’m posing for you folks in comments, Asians or just hanging around. Asians are the largest group for “independent” who don’t declare, though I’ve previously observed Asians tend to be either comatose or liberal as heck politically. Will the Obama debacle be the event that pushes Asian Americans back to the GOP side? Or, as was the case the last time the GOP took over congress, will they still end up on the side of “impoverished colonialized minorities”? Maybe we can even generate from mainstream coverage if you folks come up with some really deep responses.
You know where I come from, read Dinesh D’Souza’s book on Obama’s “anti-colonialst” theory which explains a heck of a lot of what Obama did such as toss the bust of war hero (you might think) but arch-colonialist Churchill.
MIT electrical engineering computer science graduate has written conservative columns on politics, race / culture, science and education since the 70s in MIT The Tech and various publications in including New Republic and National Review.
So how has “hope and change” worked out for you? Did you expect Obama to be the “silver bullet”? Or did you just like McCain and disliked Palin even worse. In anycase, it’s funny to see how many democrats are running anti-Obama ads, and MSNBC is terrified of an ex-witch. Obama has even ditched the “it’s Bush’s fault” plan. Go figure.
Based on this article, you lack fundamental knowledge in Asian American politics. You should read “Asian American Politics” by Andrew Aoki and Okiyoshi Takeda.
Also, you do not site your data. Asian Americans do not vote 50/50 in the party line.
I’ve got a website full of data on Asians in politics though I haven’t updated it in a while. Different ethnic groups lean different ways – Vietnamese tend to be republican (they’re still rooting for the old Republic of Vietnam), Japanese democrat, etc. Before the 90s, Asians were generally slightly more republican than whites, since then, they’ve been generally democratic, BUT ONLY SLIGHTLY MORE democratic than whites, rather than overwhelmingly so. Surely there must be some folks out there reading this who are either a) sticking their guns with Obama (debacle? What debacle?) or b) disappointed as heck or c) never liked Obama
After 1964 and the term Asian American was created, most APIAs have sided with the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. I would not say APIAs are slightly more Democratic than White Americans. In fact, majority are with the Democratic Party.
Also, there has been a political shift of Vietnamese Americans. The second and third generation Americans of Vietnamese decent are voting Democratic based on the “asian utility heuristic” theory.
To answer your question: no, APIAs will not abandon Obama. In fact, APIA still supports the Democratic Party.
Also, OCA doesn’t support the Chinese American community anymore, instead it supports the greater Asian Pacific Islander American community, hence they never refer themselves as Organization of Chinese Americans.