That's not to say the poll doesn't have its utility. Wong said it's most useful for tracking changes over time, because its data collection on the group stretches to the election. IE 11 is not supported.
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In the American context, one of the standard explanations for how people develop their political views — and support for particular political parties — is through their family. Moreover, the vast majority of the rest of the group are children of immigrants.
In the sort of void of parental-partisan transmission, Asian Americans are very open to the political views that are expressed around them in the local context by their peers. One reason that this might lead to Democratic rather than Republican support is that Asian Americans are primarily settling in very liberal cities on the East and West coasts that tend to have Democratic support. Even the ones who settle in more mixed-partisan areas, like Houston — where I did some of that field research — Asian Americans tend to mostly interact with peers who are more liberal.
Some studies also argue that this support tends to stem from their experiences of racial discrimination in the United States. So by this account, and given that the parties are becoming increasingly polarised on immigration, with Democrats supporting it, and Republicans against it, and Democrats being seen as sort of this coalition of minorities — Republicans are kind of pushing away Asian Americans while Democrats are pulling them in.
I did find some important differences across generations in terms of reasons for Democratic support. Asian Americans across the board, whether they are immigrants or the children of immigrants, are supporting Democrats. But the kind of justifications that they gave qualitatively in interviews might differ a bit. The first generation would mostly talk about the Democratic Party as the more sensible one. Higher turnout from an expanding pool of eligible voters combined to produce a dramatic rise in votes from the Asian American community.
In its recently released analysis of voter files nationwide , Catalist calculated that the total number of votes cast by Asian Americans grew from to by almost 40 percent, reaching about 7 million.
TargetSmart, in its analysis , put the increase even higher, at about 47 percent. Like many Democrats, Bee Nguyen, a Vietnamese American Georgia state representative and a candidate for secretary of state next year, attributes the geyser of new votes to several long- and short-term factors.
The GOP faces a near-unanimous conviction among Asian American civic leaders that this rhetoric has contributed to the wave of hate crimes continuing to confront the community even after Trump has left office. Asian Americans were part of that coalition that understood that the former president was dangerous for a lot of us.
Republicans historically have maintained significant beachheads of support among Asian American voters. Bush to Arkansas Gov. Businessman and independent candidate H. Preliminary data from late August polls shows Biden leading comfortably among Asian Americans as well. In that same period, the number of Asian Americans eligible to vote has more than doubled , making it the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the electorate. Some have wondered if those with ties to countries that experienced communist rule might be more supportive of the Republican Party , which has historically strongly opposed communism.
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