Asian American voting patterns

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Looking at ways to break the Democrat or liberal coalition of "diverse" groups, let's consider the Asian American vote. Today, 6% of the electorate is estimated to be Asian American.

This group's presidential voting trend is as follows:

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While the swing over the twenty year period has been utterly stunning by any analysis, its important to keep in mind that the past two mid-terms, a majority of Asian American voters are believed to have vote for the GOP for Congress (51 to 49% for the GOP in 2014). They are also the group with the highest number of non-partisans or independents.

Clearly, this group is all over the map in voting trends, albeit with a clear gravitation to the Dems over time, with the exception of Presidential elections, they are not overwhelming in their Democrat leanings.
 
The key point is how can a group that voted 73% for Obama turn around two years later and vote 51% for Republicans, and why.

There is actually not that much analysis on the internet, most of it is junk or opinion. One article I read does claim its racial issues that lead to support for Obama and the general Democrat trend, but of course they blame whites and Republicans for "pushing" the Asian voters away by being "racist" which is defined as even mentioning the idea of reducing immigration at all, even illegal immigration and this sends Asian voters like "all voters of color" into "understandable opposition" to this "terrible hatred and prejudice." Although this seems absurd to me, since whites are constantly subjected to anti-whitism throughout their lives and are the ones who are disappearing as a result of government policy while other groups are increasing and under no threat to survival at all, if we assume this is true, why does it not hold true at mid-term elections?

Interestingly, some of the comments in the article state that Asian voters swing toward the GOP when they are worried about black crime or blacks and Hispanics getting preferences over Asians, which explains the swings back and forth (they swing toward Dems when they fear whites and toward Republicans when they fear blacks). An Asian wrote this statement by the way.
 
Asian, and particularly Chinese, culture values social harmony more than individualism. That explains why Asians usually vote Democrat, even though they tend to be more affluent than whites. In addition, Asians are unlikely to be Evangelical Christians.
 
The main point about Asian voters trending Democratic is that they are much more likely to be secular than other racial and ethnic groups. The heavy identification of Republicans with a particular brand of Christianity turns many of them off, as does the conservative disdaining of science and education.

(See also the perennial right-wing complaint: "Why do Jews vote for Democrats? Don't they know we love Israel even more than we love the United States?")

Asians don't vote as a bloc any more than European-Americans do. Vietnamese have always been pro-Republican, and Indian-Americans, who tend to be wealthier, are pretty closely divided between the parties.
 
Asian, and particularly Chinese, culture values social harmony more than individualism. That explains why Asians usually vote Democrat, even though they tend to be more affluent than whites. In addition, Asians are unlikely to be Evangelical Christians.

Kudos on the progress, at least you're not calling them 'orientals' anymore. But I don't think social harmony has much to do with it.

I think most Asian cultures place a very high value on education, often to the point of comedic obsession.

Republicans at large fucking HATE education and loathe science in favor of religion. I'd put money that among asian voters at large, that is their single biggest beef with the GOP.
 
One article I read does claim its racial issues that lead to support for Obama and the general Democrat trend, but of course they blame whites and Republicans for pushing the Asian voters away by being racist

The GOP and teahadits are racist. That's why they've lost the minority vote. It's why they've lost the Hispanic vote, the black vote, and a whole bunch of other votes along the way.

Not that you're capable of reading but you might want to check out an actual book.
 
Kudos on the progress, at least you're not calling them 'orientals' anymore. But I don't think social harmony has much to do with it.

I think most Asian cultures place a very high value on education, often to the point of comedic obsession.

Republicans at large fucking HATE education and loathe science in favor of religion. I'd put money that among asian voters at large, that is their single biggest beef with the GOP.

I said "Asians" in order to include East Indians.
 
The key point is how can a group that voted 73% for Obama turn around two years later and vote 51% for Republicans, and why.

There is actually not that much analysis on the internet, most of it is junk or opinion. One article I read does claim its racial issues that lead to support for Obama and the general Democrat trend, but of course they blame whites and Republicans for "pushing" the Asian voters away by being "racist" which is defined as even mentioning the idea of reducing immigration at all, even illegal immigration and this sends Asian voters like "all voters of color" into "understandable opposition" to this "terrible hatred and prejudice." Although this seems absurd to me, since whites are constantly subjected to anti-whitism throughout their lives and are the ones who are disappearing as a result of government policy while other groups are increasing and under no threat to survival at all, if we assume this is true, why does it not hold true at mid-term elections?

Interestingly, some of the comments in the article state that Asian voters swing toward the GOP when they are worried about black crime or blacks and Hispanics getting preferences over Asians, which explains the swings back and forth (they swing toward Dems when they fear whites and toward Republicans when they fear blacks). An Asian wrote this statement by the way.

Cause they made a mistake???
 
Once whites are gone, the blacks, Hispanics, and Asians will fight each other in a massive civil war for what's left.

It will be ugly and funny at the same time. I'm guess this will occur in the 2050s. I would be in my 80s, I hope I'm around to see it for shits and giggles.
 
It's fun to talk about people in groups that you are not a part of. I especially like the group think part of it. Everyone knows groups are not comprised of individuals who think for themselves. Instead they have a group communication device that allows them to keep perfectly insync (I :heart: backstreet boys).

I bet they all eat rice for dinner too!
 
Once whites are gone, the blacks, Hispanics, and Asians will fight each other in a massive civil war for what's left.

It will be ugly and funny at the same time. I'm guess this will occur in the 2050s. I would be in my 80s, I hope I'm around to see it for shits and giggles.

http://i.imgur.com/JOtvvMm.gif

If the whites have to be gone in order for your shitty and laughably pathetic non-white race war fantasy to come around, what makes you assume you'll be around to "see it" while shitting and giggling?

Bitch please. Get your drunk would-be disenfranchised pale male ass outta here with this desperation ish...

http://38.media.tumblr.com/8455549e78289d4974f0ae396510ba0d/tumblr_n8cwu9vOU01r42zfzo1_400.gif

:D
 
GOP pols announce they want to convert / deport / murder non-whites.

Non-whites don't vote for GOP much.

Imagine that.
 
Once whites are gone, the blacks, Hispanics, and Asians will fight each other in a massive civil war for what's left.

It will be ugly and funny at the same time. I'm guess this will occur in the 2050s. I would be in my 80s, I hope I'm around to see it for shits and giggles.

I'm gonna bet the ranch the Asians win this war.....i watched a married Asian couple, who couldnt wait for the plow to come through, dig out an entire street. Just the two of them....

That says it all....
 
Nearly 4 million Asians voted in the 2012 presidential election, a 547,000 increase over 2008. According to exit polls, nearly three-quarters of Asian-American voters favored President Barack Obama in the 2012 election. They comprised about 3 percent of the total electorate.

The Asian-American community has been the subject of relatively little discussion in the Democratic and Republican primaries.Republicans should be alarmed by this statistic, as Asians weren’t always so far out of reach for Republicans.
 
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