{"id":3599,"date":"2020-10-11T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2020-10-11T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T13:43:18","slug":"how-asian-americans-are-thinking-about-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3599","title":{"rendered":"How Asian Americans Are Thinking About The 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Asian American voters&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/itsallpolitics\/2015\/09\/16\/439574726\/how-asian-american-voters-went-from-republican-to-democratic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">didn\u2019t always lean Democratic<\/a>. In 1992, less than a third of Asian Americans voted Democratic. But nowadays, most Asian Americans identify as Democrats, with more than half saying they plan to back Joe Biden and less than a third saying they\u2019d vote for President Trump, according to the latest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aapidata.com\/2020-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asian American Voter Survey<\/a>&nbsp;released this week.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The different groups that comprise Asian American voters are divided over how much \u2014 and whether \u2014 they will back Biden for president.<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-asian-americans-are-thinking-about-the-2020-election\/#fn-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;For instance, Filipino Americans are more evenly divided among supporting Biden and Trump than Japanese Americans. And Indian Americans, who have been reliably Democratic for years, now show some signs of slowly shifting to the right. Finally, Vietnamese Americans lean pretty consistently Republican.&#8221;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;it\u2019s important that we don\u2019t read too much into one survey. Only about 250 respondents were in each subgroup, putting the margin of error at +\/- 6 percentage points for each group.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-fivethirtyeight\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"B2P2jrrJEz\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-asian-americans-are-thinking-about-the-2020-election\/\">How Asian Americans Are Thinking About The 2020 Election<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How Asian Americans Are Thinking About The 2020 Election&#8221; &#8212; FiveThirtyEight\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-asian-americans-are-thinking-about-the-2020-election\/embed\/#?secret=vvyZVWGPyQ#?secret=B2P2jrrJEz\" data-secret=\"B2P2jrrJEz\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Asian American voters didn\u2019t always lean Democratic. In 1992, less than a third of Asian Americans voted Democratic. But nowadays, most Asian Americans identify as Democrats, with more than half saying they plan to back Joe Biden and less than a third saying they\u2019d vote for President Trump, according to the latest Asian American Voter Survey released this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The different groups that comprise Asian American voters are divided over how much \u2014 and whether \u2014 they will back Biden for president.1 For instance, Filipino Americans are more evenly divided among supporting Biden and Trump than Japanese Americans. And Indian Americans, who have been reliably Democratic for years, now show some signs of slowly shifting to the right. Finally, Vietnamese Americans lean pretty consistently Republican.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it\u2019s important that we don\u2019t read too much into one survey. Only about 250 respondents were in each subgroup, putting the margin of error at +\/- 6 percentage points for each group.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[768,769,198,479],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asian","tag-asian-american","tag-elections","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3600,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}