Posted on 11/12/2016 7:54:44 AM PST by Tours
A striking majority of Asian-American voters backed Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, according to a national poll.
The Asian-American National Election Eve Poll concluded that 75% of Asian Americans voted for Clinton, while only 19% voted for Donald Trump—a much wider margin than found by exit polls, which reported 65% of Asian Americans voting for Clinton.
“Once again, the national media exit-poll numbers for Latinos and Asian Americans didn’t do it right and didn’t get it right,” Taeku Lee, UC Berkeley political science professor and the survey’s lead researcher, said in a release.....
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are increasingly poised to shape U.S. elections. For two decades, they’ve been the nation’s fastest-growing racial group and one of its fastest-growing electorates. Since 2000, the AAPI electorate has grown by 620,000 voters with each presidential cycle. By 2040, one in every 10 Americans will be AAPI, and the number of AAPI voters will double to 12 million.
With so many elections determined by unnervingly small margins, Asian Americans have the power to influence outcomes, Ichinose said....
In key swing states, Asian Americans boosted votes for Clinton, with 83% supporting her in Pennsylvania, 78% in Virginia, 73% in North Carolina, and 72% in Florida.....
As a whole, Asian Americans held liberal stances on many big issues; most supported protection for undocumented immigrants, the Affordable Care Act, stricter gun laws, and LGBTQ rights.
Your point is well taken. It’s difficult to know what poll is more accurate. Regardless, all polls showed an overwhelming support of Hillary by Asians.
I’ve often wondered why these people leave their country come here for whatever reason, then try and make OUR country like the one they left.
Perhaps.
Or perhaps they learned in the Chairman Mao School of Public Discourse to never tell a random stranger who approaches them in the street anything they wouldn't want to hear in their tribunal?
Beats me. Californians do the same thing...
I guess because they CAN. A hundred years ago they couldn’t - the Palmer Raids are an example of a strong country that wouldn’t put up with people rioting or terrorizing the country. Public schools instilled American values through civics classes. All that has been lost and we are suffering because of it.
Yes, and H1B Visas. They are taking so many top paying jobs here in corporate America and are quietly afraid of what will happen. They are gathering around the TVs at work looking horrified at Trump coverage now that he has been elected, where before with the election coverage they didnt even glance at the TV. I was lectured heavily by one arrogant IT Lead from India about how I was raising my daughter inappropriately by voting for Trump. I let him know his voting for Soros was endangering his daughter and he better not ever tell me how to raise my child again. No comment back of course.
Very good post.
I think you are right on.
Donald is the guy we needed. Big time.
Teddy Roosevelt was very much against hyphenated Americans.I don’t think it’ll change anytime soon.
I am of the opinion that a nation composed of a babel of peoples cannot long endure.
Georgia is one or two cycles away from the same fate as Virginia.
Not surprised. Yeah, they want to pay lower taxes, but they are also fond of free stuffs, if that’s paid by someone else.
In a few more years, those 3 states voting for Trump this election (FL, NC and PA) will be solidly blue.
AS will be Texas, Arizona and many other states.
Switzerland has been a polyglot constitutional federal republic since 1291.
Right, does it dawn on them when the seek out white European societies in order to thrive that those societies are the way they are merely out of happenstance? Or will it dawn on them that they are product of the Europeans who built and populated them?? Good luck to these Asians who are throwing themselves in the lot of people of color. I'm sure that'll work out well. In a couple generations your progeny will be pining for Shanghai and Hanoi.
The Asian angle is easy to understand. They wish to immigrate to the U.S. and become successful and make lots of money. However, for every young Asian you see graduating near the top of their class with a STEM degree there may well be many family members working off-book at local Asian owned businesses such as restaurants.
They want taxpayers to take care of Uncle Han/Ravi with SSI, EBT, Medicade etc.
As with most immigrant communities, they are expert at using the benefits system. A system most likely to remain intact under a democratic administration.
Once again our President elect is ahead of the curve. As we inevitably lose the GOP advantage in the sunbelt, albeit slower with true immigration reform, he has shown us the way to change the blue wall to red.
If Trump is successful in reinvigorating the economy as I believe he will, the new Republican coalition can hold until enough minorities wake up and finally realize Democrats are the true racist elites.
True, Switzerland can do it. It is the true version of what a Federal Nation can be. Each Canton is relatively sovereign and self-governing with very little Federal oversight. There are German, French and Italian speaking Cantons with long established histories. They banded together to have enough strength to stand up to European powers so as to maintain their independence. However, if the German speaking Canton of Zurich were to slowly find itself in a position of having 25% of its votes cast by Muslims, then I think they would have a major problem.
Excellent points, Tours. And I should know - I’m always walking around Chinatown. Most of those folks aren’t going to MIT.
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