Asian Americans favor Biden, Warren while Yang lags behind, survey finds

[highplainsdem]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-americans-favor-biden-warren-while-yang-lags-behind-survey-n1080236

Asian Americans appear to currently favor Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren when it comes to the Democratic presidential candidates, according to a recent informal survey by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Andrew Yang, who’s Taiwanese American, still lags behind.

The group released the nonscientific survey of 500 voters last week after Tuesday’s general election. Attorneys, law students and volunteers for the AALDEF spoke with the voters across Virginia, Texas and Pennsylvania. Jerry Vattamala, the organization’s Democracy Program director, told NBC News that both Biden and Warren performed best among Democrats because they have platforms that tap into the community’s priorities.

“The top issues for Asian American voters typically include health care and education, among other issues, and these two candidates are focused on those issues,” he said.

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According to the results across the three states, voters showed varied support for candidates if they were to choose a president at this time. In Houston, Trump emerged the front-runner with 38 percent of the Asian American vote. Biden came in second with 15 percent and Warren closely followed with 12 percent of the vote.

In Philadelphia, front-runner Biden earned 24 percent of votes while Warren followed with 19 percent, according to the AALDEF’s survey. Yang came in third at 14 percent and Trump trailed considerably, nabbing 10 percent of votes.

While Trump outperformed Yang in Virginia, the president came in fourth, behind Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who received 15 percent of the vote, as well as Warren, who garnered 20 percent, and Biden, who earned 26 percent.

Vattamala explained that though Asian Americans, as a group, lean left, Trump likely drew more support in Houston since a significant portion of survey respondents were Vietnamese, the “most conservative” subgroup of Asian Americans. He noted that because a sizable population of Vietnamese Americans came to the U.S. as refugees following the Vietnam War, many are staunchly anti-communist and “believed that Republicans were more aggressively anti-communist.”

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In all three states, a large portion of voters the group spoke with were not enrolled in either the Democratic or the Republican parties. In Texas and Virginia, more than a third of respondents were unaffiliated, and in Pennsylvania, more than a quarter of voters surveyed reported the same thing. Vattamala suspects that many Asian Americans vote on specific issues like health care, education and immigration, casting votes for the candidate congruous with their needs and concerns, rather than remaining with one party.

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[Apollo Zeus]

1. Why would anyone spend the money to poll but do it "nonscientific"?

Useless but at least they admitted it was junk.

Typically all you have to do with poll results to make them apply to a wider group is to weight them. I really don't get it.

[redqueen]

2. And who would consider such junk newsworthy?

[highplainsdem]

3. NBC News.

[redqueen]

6. Yeah it was rhetorical - we know how much Yang is dismissed by the MSM

A Visual History of the #YangMediaBlackout

Back in June of 2019, I tweeted about the latest egregious example of MSNBC excluding Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang from their ongoing coverage of the 2020 Presidential candidates. There had been previous examples, but that was the worst up to that point because they had photos of all 20 candidates who were going to be in the first debates, and instead of including Yang as one of them, they included someone who wasn't even going to be there. I then started to add each new example as a new reply, and that ongoing thread has now been covered over and over again with each new example as a source of entertaining absurdity. It's been covered by traditional media outlets like The Guardian, Vox, and The Hill. It's also been covered by new media like Ethan and Hila Klein of the H3 Podcast for their two million subscribers.

I have gotten many requests to put the entire thread in one place outside of Twitter, so this article has been created to meet that request. Each time a new example occurs, I will update the thread on Twitter, and update this page on Vocal too.

I have also made a point here of expanding on the thread in a way I can't on Twitter, by expanding the timeline with earlier examples that had occurred before I started my thread. So instead of starting in June, this timeline starts back in March...

...

https://vocal.media/theSwamp/a-visual-history-of-the-yang-media-blackout

[Apollo Zeus]

5. Additionally I find the idea that we are expected to vote for someone

because they look like us to be very distasteful. And the idea that there is one unified "Asian community" denies individual people their humanity and voice.

[Xandric77]

4. I wish a scientific poll were conducted

It would be more convincing.

[nsd]

7. Asian American is not a well-defined category.

One might argue that a lot of the categories we use (white, African American, Latino) are also too broad to be useful, but this one seems especially useless.

The economic interests of Indian American taxi drivers are not well aligned with those of Indian American physicians. Some Chinese Americans can trace their family roots in this country back five or six or more generations, whereas others immigrated themselves. Some communities (Filipinos, Vietnamese) have strong and proud connections with American military service and traditions; others do not.

If Andrew Yang has any special appeal to Asian Americans (my sense is that he does not), it is because he is associated with some things (closeness to the immigrant generation, the promise of the technology industry) that are common to some groups of Asian Americans, not because of ethnicity as such -- especially because "Asian American" is a collection of disparate ethnicities with rather varied religious, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds..