[quote=SK in CV]AN and Flu and others….I meant to post this here when it first came out a few weeks ago.
Results of the annual Asian American voter survey…
snipped from the executive summary:
• Asian Americans are shifting in party identification towards the Democratic Party, and
exclusionary rhetoric is a likely cause
o There has been a 12-point increase in the proportion of Asian Americans who identify as Democrats from 2012 to 2016 (pp. 27-28)
o Bolstering evidence from 2014, our survey indicates that Asian American registered voters, including Independents, will punish candidates with antiimmigrant and anti-Muslim views (pp. 17-18)
• On the presidential candidates:
o Hillary Clinton has the most net favorability, while Trump is viewed very unfavorably (pp. 8-9)
o A large proportion still have no opinion of Bernie Sanders (p. 9)
o Many Republican candidates were viewed unfavorably this year, highlighting the challenges for a party trying to attract immigrant voter support amid exclusionary rhetoric by many presidential candidates (p. 10)
Curious whether Asians on the board have seen it and have any feedback on the results. My first reaction was that I was surprised at how similar (with some exceptions) the results were across countries of origin. But I’m just a white guy without much insight on the subject, so data is all I have.[/quote]
For some asians there are two fundamental things you never screw around with, unless you want to get a shitstorm:
1. An asian person’s wallet.
2. An asian person’s education or his kid’s education.
Anyone that attempts to do that is immediately blacklisted an “an enemy of the state”. Just kidding…sort of….
I think the asian that tend to vote republican were only doing so for mainly for economic reasons. It probably has to do with that those that do vote republican tend to make up the upper middle class incomes, and the concern is over getting screwed over in taxes. Probably the mentality that I’ve worked my ass off, why are you trying to take more of a cut?
The second area where a politician will get a shitstorm over is if you screw around with an asian’s education or worse their kid’s education. If you recall, CA democrat’s push for SCA-5 really left a bad taste in some of my colleague’s mouth, because to a lot of us, this was like a slap in the face as reverse discrimination. Even to this day, I probably would never vote completely democrat either in CA no matter how bad the GOP party is, because let’s face it, asians are not the “flavor of the month” minority that democrats like to champion for. And sometimes, ab all democrat supermajority ends up screwing us over too.
I don’t trust an all democrat led government, especially locally in CA, in the same way I don’t trust an all GOP led circus either. And I stand by my assertion that in CA, there are some republicans that are so moderate, that they are probably more liberal than democrats elsewhere in the nation.
That said, Trump really screwed things up for the GOP. There are some lines not meant to be crossed. It part of me is wondering exactly how bad the GOP damage will be. While I definitely don’t want Trump to win, and would like to see his supporters get kicked out of the office, I hope this doesn’t turn into a landslide in which you have a lot of good moderates that get taken down also. That is what I’m more worried about than actually Trump winning.
I think our democratic government only works well if there is a balance so that our government does it’s best to make sure at least everyone has a piece in the pie (or in the worst case, no one has a piece in the pie). And given our system’s reliance on a two party system, it seems that balance can only be achieved if we have a decent mix of politicians from both parties and third parities in our government keeping each other in check.
