PbW4e Wrote:
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> > 4TdKK Wrote:
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> > > Last pres election Asians Voted 73% for Obama
> > Not
> > > sure where the 51% above comes from.
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> > 2014 exit polls - aka "last fall" - last fall
> not
> > being 2012.
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> Post evaluates the numbers there is a shift but
> not from 73 to 50 percent.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp
> /2014/11/10/did-asian-americans-switch-parties-ove
> rnight-no/
That makes sense. It does indeed remind me of the debate over the 2004 Bush Hispanic exit polls (44% was the total, some feel it was closer to 40),
Asians are an anomoly in voting. People think "minority = Democrat" but Asians are demographically much more similar to whites (in poverty, income, education, and marriage rates) than any Hispanics or Blacks. They "should" vote similarly but they haven't lately.
My working theory has always been that as long as immigration issues are front and center R's look evil to Asians by proxy even if no one is talking about them specifically.
Asians also aren't monolithic. Vietnamese immigrants lean Republican. Koreans are mainly unaffiliated. Those that are divide evenly. The rest lean Democratic to various degrees.