Some material cross-posted from Asian Americans for Obama.
UPDATE: I previously said AAPIs comprise 3.5% of the US population. It's actually 4.5%.
Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters don't get a lot of respect from pollsters and pundits generally. Most polls, election commentary and analysis ignore AAPI voters. You don't find a lot of discussion of AAPI voters on progressive blogs, either, except those devoted specifically to AAPI issues (and there really aren't very many of those).
There are some good reasons for this. AAPIs comprise about 4.5% of the US population, which makes them hard to poll accurately given the usual small sample sizes. AAPI is also a general label for a highly diverse community that includes Indian Americans, Samoan Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Chinese Americans, and more, whose views can be quite divergent. A significant number of AAPI voters also possess limited English proficiency, and the sheer number of languages spoken by the community makes AAPIs more difficult to survey.
On the other hand, Democrats and progressives neglect AAPIs at their own peril.
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