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Beatrice1000
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 Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:48 am Post subject: Vietnamese-Americans voted AGAINST kerry |
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Vietnamese-Americans made a statement in the 2004 election that not many people noticed – I think it’s quite revealing – maybe they have a story to tell. Why are they so far apart from the other Asian-Americans? Why, if kerry’s anti-war antics saved the Vietnamese people from the “imperialistic United States” by ending the “illegal & immoral war” and the attendant U.S. “genocide and ravaging,” did they so overwhelmingly vote against him in his own state (and nationwide)? We’ve got some statistics here – one would think that a reporter would see a story waiting to be told:
| Quote: | “Asian-Americans step up to ballot box,” by Stephanie Ebbert, Boston Globe – 4/26/05
Survey finds surge in first-time voters
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More than 40 percent of Asian-Americans who cast ballots last November in Massachusetts were voting for the first time, ….. That proportion of first-time voters was higher in Massachusetts than in many other states surveyed across the country, <….>
Asian-Americans who are registered to vote in Massachusetts tend largely to be Democratic or unenrolled -- except for Vietnamese-American voters, who lean Republican and who overwhelmingly backed President Bush for reelection, the survey indicated.
In the Commonwealth, 79 percent of Vietnamese-American poll respondents backed Bush, with just 21 percent favoring US Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts.
Nationally, the poll indicated that Vietnamese-American respondents favored Bush over Kerry 72 percent to 28 percent.
That disparity probably reflected not only the tendency among Vietnamese-Americans to vote Republican, reflecting the political beliefs of refugees who escaped communism, specialists in Asian-American politics said during a press conference yesterday. It probably also stemmed from concern over Kerry's antiwar activism and his later advocacy for normalizing relations with Vietnam, the specialists said.
''There was a very particular threat that John Kerry represented because of his anti-Vietnam War activism," said Peter Kiang, a professor of Asian-American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. ''From the perspective of the refugee exile community, peace with the victor was an enormous threat."<…..>
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kate
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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good find...
this really wouldn't surprise most of us here, but what is surprising
is that someone is actually writing a story about it, and this far after the election. Kudos to Ms Ebbert
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...and in the GLOBE of all places. Knock me over with a feather...  |
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I B Squidly
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I was an election judge for my local precinct. It was heart warming to see all my Viet Namese neighbors bringing their entire extended families smiling and unabashedly pro-Bush (or anti-Kerry as the case may be). They'ld vote just the one item. They'd see my ships ballcap and give thumbs up.
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coldwarvet
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Another great find Beatrice.
Kerry is bad news for the Democratic Party. He has not only mobilizes the vast majority of the 30 million Veterans he also serves to mobilize the growing Vietnamese-American community. It makes perfect sense to me though. How many of them lost friends and family members in the wake of the 1975 US pull out? How many were lost at sea in their make shift boats as they ran for their lives? How many were forced to leave their home land and start a new life in strange lands? I think they understand that all of this happened to them because America lost its political will to fight. And I think they also understand what a large role John F. Kerry played in undermining Americas will to fight while emboldening the enemy to stay in the fight.
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