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Asian Pacific Americans’ choice
April 25, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
Kitty XIE Rui (5)
In recent years, an increasing number of Asians emigrated to American and successfully assimilated into the local community. It forces U.S. politicians to attach greater weight to this group.
In response to the U.S. presidential election, 80-20 Initiative which is the largest national APA political Organization issued a questionnaire to presidential candidates of both the Republican party and the Democratic Party. The questionnaire focuses on two issues: 1) break the glass ceiling for APAs; 2) nominate more Asian Am judges.
Senator Clinton as the first endorsed candidate has got their supports since California Democratic primary. Senator Obama replied more than a month later. However, McCain has not given any answer to that questionnaire until now.
According to the statistics of previous U.S. presidential elections, most Asian Pacific American tended to support the Democratic Party because its immigration policy and welfare policy are better for them. For example, the immigration plan which was proposed by the U.S. present president Bush in 2004 has a great influence on most Asian Pacific Americans.
However, some Asian Pacific Americans with high-income prefer the Republican Party as the ruling party because of its lower tax on the rich.
