Some exit polling is showing that republicans got 49% of the Asian vote

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I'll never understand why 85% of them don't vote conservative. As a group, they're the poster child for the value, and benefit, of possessing a strong work ethic and self-discipline.

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No shite. I have no idea why the number isn't 90%. Asians are all about hard work and are very conservative.

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Maybe we've found a chink in the armor...

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Like all groups, there are some that love free stuffs

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That's a new slant on elections.....

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That's so wong.


In all seriousness, this isn't an overly challenging voting block for republicans. The downside is that turnout is often very low.

Anecdotal....but every Asian American I know seems to be hard working, at least fairly bright, careful consumers, and family oriented. A good conservative message should resonate there.

A lot of younger Asians go to private universities up north and are taught taught by liberal professors.

Granted, I'm half-asian and I pretty much always vote conservative.

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I've heard that Vietnamese people tend to be very conservative.

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growing up, my family's always, always been conservative...dad still votes R every chance he gets.

now, the second generation is probably more a mixture of left, right and middle than anything.

my sister (no pics) went from growing up conservative, to moving to NYC, and is now hardcore lib. heated political debates around the thanksgiving dinner table are a norm now for us.

Thanks for the insight, Egg.

A decent percentage of Vietnamese (and Asian?) people run small businesses. I think they want what a lot of us want. They want government to stop regulating everything to the hilt, get out of the way, and let the American people go about their business.