Sizable Percentage of First-time Asian American Voters in 2016 Election

By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent

An election day survey of nearly 14,000 Asian American voters from 55 cities and 14 states has found 30 percent of those polled were first-time voters.

That’s a three percent increase from a similar poll in 2012 also conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund .… Read more

Blog: A Year of Activism and Protest

By Ed Diokno
 
It would be easy to describe the year as an awful year with the highlight – or, lowlight, depending on your point of view – being the election of Donald Trump.
 
But something was happening among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders that might make 2016 a year to relish. The … Read more

Blog: Eyewitness about KKK: “I’m speechless” Trump Trumps Opponents in Nevada

KKK Supports Donald Trump

By Ed Diokno
 

Blog: Gov. Nikki Haley Needs to Take an Ethnic Studies Class to Understand America’s Racial History

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley gave the Republican rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union.

By Ed Diokno

Dissecting Why Asian Americans Abandoned the Republican Party, Yet All Is not Hopeless for the GOP

No ethnic group has abandoned the Republican Party faster than Asian Americans, according to The Conversation, yet the Grand Old Party is working hard to turn that around.

Two decades ago 74 percent of the Asian American vote went to the GOP. Since then the Democratic share of the vote has increased from 36 … Read more

Politico: Party of White Men Slow to Shed Image

If the Republican party line is to believed, the GOP took over the Senate in the midterm elections by expanding its base beyond white voters.

Republicans have made a concerted effort to run minority candidates as a sign all our welcomed in the Grand Old Party. Pictures of a sea of white delegates at the … Read more

Mother Jones: Asian Republican Coalition a Bit Suspect

There’s been a lot of talk this year about Republicans expanding their tent and reaching out to Asian Americans and other minorities.

Mother Jones reports the Asian Republican Coalition formed to boost that effort has endorsed just 5 candidates–four are white  and one is Asian American, Republican candidate for governor in Rhode Island, Allan Fung … Read more

Asian Americans Shift decidedly toward Democrats. Republicans scrambling

An analysis by the Gallup Poll has concluded Asian Americans have shifted toward the Democrats in the 21st century more than any other ethnic group.

This as Republicans scramble to win them back.

The New York Times reports Asian Americans have been alienated by the Republican party core constituency of evangelists and the party’s resistance … Read more

NOLA: Gov @BobbyJindal parodied on SNL

You know you’ve made the national scene when you get parodied on Saturday Night Live.

SNL cast member Nasim Pedrad in a bit of gender bending portrayed Louisiana Governor and likely presidential candidate Bobby Jindal in a sketch about the new Republican party, reports NOLA.

The actress was born in Iran and immigrated with her … Read more

Los Angeles Times: Republicans face long odds in winning back Asian American vote

Asian Americans have run away from the Republican party in the last 20 years faster than any other voting group, reports the Los Angeles Times.

That isn’t news to Asian Americans who follow politics closely, but perhaps what is news is the Republicans struggle to win that vote back.

The Grand Old Party which … Read more