"Mr. Kerry, there are more than two million Vietnamese refugees now in America."
And by a fairly high proportion, they vote Republican and conservative.
Why? They recall it was the dems that botched the military aspect of the effort. They realize the dems then decided to cut bait and run. The Vietnamese community will associate the anti-war effort with dems.
Also, the Vietnamese are pro-small business. And they see Republicans as more friendly to business owners.
And by a fairly high proportion, they vote Republican and conservative.There was an ethnic poll run by some group in California last year, just before the Iraq war.
It found that Vietnamese Americans consistently supported the war, GWB, the war on terror, and the rest of it higher than any other ethnic group. Hispanics and Chinese were in the 50s/60s. Arabs were way down there in the 30s/40s.
Vietnamese Americans were in the mid- to high-80s on every question asked.