“Asian Americans are supposed to be smart.
There goes that theory.”
On November 6th, 71% of Hispanics cast their votes for Obama.
On that same day, 73% of Asians cast their votes for Obama.
Asians “voted left” in a higher percentage than did Hispanics!
What should that tell us about the future?
I hate to say it, but one of the things that hurt Romney was the impression that Romney was the “White Candidate”........Comedians had fun lampooning how few minorities were in the crowd at Romney/Ryan rallies.
According to their lights, they are being “smart”. As long as there is a racial spoils system in this country for every racial-ethnic group except whites, the members of those groups are going to vote to get their “share” of the spoils every time. Unless we can get rid of affirmative action, race-based preferences of any kind, racially-targeted “testing” for schools and for jobs, people are going to vote for who offers them them the most from the system. The only other option is for both parties to pander, and there are of course multiple problems with that. For one thing, the left is already way ahead in that game. For another, that strategy leaves whites and the few minority conservatives completely out in the cold. As long as reward isn’t based on merit, whites will be taken for granted.
I’m an Asian born american. I can tell you that when GOP can’t draw support from Asians there are some thing really wrong. You can throw away the assumption of minority are for free stuffs out of the window. Asians are the most hard working people around maybe same with latinos. I have a chinese friend with a baby. Her husband left her and she’s left without job. She refused to get a foodstamp card because that was kind of insulting to her dignity. Believe me Asian people are conservative at heart and they are pro-life. They care about social issues but not more than economic issues.
And yet my Asian friends do support democrat party by a lot. Older Asian groups like Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Burmese, Cambodian were overwhelming for GOP because of Ronald Reagan. Now Reagan is dead. Young Asians view GOP as outdated, white party, old people party, etc. The problem is in the last 20 years, GOP has no answer to liberal media machine attacking to the party image. They let them define them as such as such. Young Asians went to schools and colleges and were indoctrinated by liberal education system. It’s not cool anymore to be a republican these day. And that’s really sad.