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Not surprising. It is exactly what will happen in the US. Those segments of the immigrant population that buy into the work ethic will vote increasingly conservative, while those who do not, won’t. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity and everything to do with personal philosophy.

Major BS alert. It has everything to do with race and ethnicity in the US, including immigrants. Obama got 93% of the black vote, 73% of the Asian vote, and 71% of the Hispanic vote. Although not a race or ethnicity, he received 69% of the Jewish vote in 2012 and 78% in 2008. Romney got 59% of the non-Hispanic white vote.

As the demography of the US changes with non-Hisapnic whites being less than 50% by 2043, the Dems will become the permanent majority party. Demography is destiny.

The non-Hispanic white population is projected to peak in 2024, at 199.6 million, up from 197.8 million in 2012. Unlike other race or ethnic groups, however, its population is projected to slowly decrease, falling by nearly 20.6 million from 2024 to 2060.

Most of the ethnic Hispanics and Asians in the US, along with most of the recent immigrants from Africa and India, are going to morph into the American conservative demographic within a generation. “White” here does NOT refer to skin color or ethnicity, but to Protestant work ethic and individual responsibility. We went through this before, when the Irish flooded the shores in the mid1800s, when the Italians and central Europeans flooded the shores at the turn of the last century, and the refugees that flooded around the middle of the last century. We will go through it again.

“73% of the Asian vote”

Wasn’t always the case. From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Americans_in_government_and_politics

In the 1992 presidential election Republican George H. W. Bush received 55% of the Asian-American vote compared to 31% for Democrat Bill Clinton. Asian Americans voted Republican and were the only racial group more conservative than whites in the 1990s, according to surveys.[34] The Asian American vote has slowly shifted since then with Democrat John Kerry winning 56% of the Asian American vote in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election; Chinese and Indian Americans were more likely to support John Kerry; whereas Vietnamese and Filipino Americans supported George Bush.[37] The Japanese leaned towards Kerry, while the Koreans leaned towards Bush.[37] Democrat Barack Obama won 62% of the Asian American vote in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election,[38] with the margin increasing during the 2012 United States presidential elections, where Asian American voters voted to re-elect Democrat Barack Obama by 73%.[39]

I don’t think it’s a monolithic thing either. My SWAG? Filipinos, Koreans and Vietnamese support the GOP because it’s hawkish on China. Chinese support the Dems because it’s dovish on China. Indians support the Dems because it is socialist, despite the failure of socialism in India, because it’s drilled into them that socialism failed there because colonialism. As all of them assimilate, I expect that they will drift back towards the GOP because racial quotas set up by the Dems systematically discriminate against them. (If the Dems systematically discriminated against whites, they’d be wiped out at the polls, so Asians are an easy target. Not to mention that the Democratic leadership is mostly white, so they’d be discriminating against their friends and relatives, if they went after whites). In addition, unlike Jews, Asians have no noblesse oblige-related concept of tikkun olam - it’s every man for himself, and Democratic policies really bite into the incomes of the relatively-productive Asian community.