Various news organizations including the Asia Times report on a poll sponsored by New California Media:
The survey was carried out in August by several national polling firms. Interviewees could respond in English or their choice of eight Asian languages. The poll found that Kerry’s strongest support came from Chinese and Indian-Americans, while Vietnamese and Filipino-American voters are the most supportive of incumbent President Bush and of his Republican Party as a whole.
Overall, Kerry leads Bush among Asian-Americans by 43% versus 36%, a significant gap in favor of the Democrats, but a good deal smaller than the 14% margin of the 2000 presidential race. In that election, former vice president Al Gore won 55% of the Asian-American vote to Bush’s 41% and Ralph Nader’s 3%.
The closing of the gap between 2000 and 2004 is what is of most interest. Have the Republicans made better progress than the Democrats in recruitment during this time? I am also sure that SM readers will be more than willing to contribute their theories as to why Chinese and Indian-Americans trend differently than Vietnamese and Filipino-Americans. The other number that jumps out in the poll is that 20% of the Asian vote is undecided. The overall undecided vote has been repeatedly characterized in the media as miniscule.
By far the largest group of undecideds were “Asian Indians” (30%).
A more in-depth analysis of at least the Indian-American aspect of the poll numbers can reportedly be found in the print edition of India-West magazine.
Clearly the answer is genetic in nature. Since Asians are getting smarter, and more like me, every day (their penises are also getting larger), they are now more politically conservative. QED.
Anecdotally, Indians in Indian seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of Kerry w/ Indians in Amrika leaning the same way. There’s a rather interesting split however, b/t the Vietnamese Americans vs. Vietnamese Vietnamese
Most Asian Americans voted for the Republican candidate up to 1992. By 1996 I think Clinton and Dole were about a dead heat. In 2000 it had flipped over entirely. It is interesting to me that 2004 shows signs of a rebound. I would have predicted the opposite based on the racial Marxism stuffed down the throats of AA youth at college.