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Interesting poll linked on Drudge. The crosstabs show Trump getting 26.22% of black vote, 40.71 of Latino vote, and 48% of Asian vote and almost 50% of female vote!

Even in a national election shadowed by geopolitical instability and a heated debate over immigration, it’s a rare campaign that has voters hearing about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and maritime disputes between Japan and the Republic of Korea. But in these suburbs a few miles from the nation’s capital, these are only a few of the unconventional issues rearing up in the battle for control of Congress. Candidates up and down the ballot have hurled themselves into winning over the area’s swiftly growing Asian-American population, striving to sell themselves as champions of small business and public education, and...

First Vietnamese-American lawmaker object of pride, threats WESTMINSTER, Calif. - The first order of business for Van Tran, following his election night success, was a trip to a Vietnam War memorial. With a bodyguard. That's politics in Southern California's Little Saigon, where the first Vietnamese-American elected to a state legislature - and the nation's highest-ranking Vietnamese-American elected official - is an object of community pride and death threats. Tran said he has been told by two people he considers reliable that Vietnamese communists have targeted him for assassination because of his new political status and past activism against the regime...

DETROIT — In an election already marred by provisional ballot challenges, numerous reports of voter discrimination from nonpartisan poll monitoring groups underline the possible flaws in the nation’s voting systems. Further impeding the voting process were accounts from student polling volunteers who said that ballot challengers were intimidating voters, signifying how fierce partisanship of the election permeated polling sites. Racial slurs from election workers, missing bilingual ballots and unwarranted demands to check voter identification turned away Asian American voters across the nation, according to reports by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Learning from the lessons of the...

Senator John F. Kerry has touted his Vietnam experience as a key qualification for being president. Ironically, and precisely because of his Vietnam experience, I will join most Vietnamese Americans in opposing his candidacy. Ever since Lieutenant Kerry chased and executed a wounded communist guerrilla more than 30 years ago, he has done everything in his power to support the communist regime's efforts to strangle human rights and democracy in Vietnam. Senator Kerry has also become one of the most loyal boosters of Hanoi's interests in America. The victorious communists of Vietnam have publicly and repeatedly over the years thanked...

Senator John F. Kerry has touted his Vietnam experience as a key qualification for being president. Ironically, and precisely because of his Vietnam experience, I will join most Vietnamese Americans in opposing his candidacy. Ever since Lieutenant Kerry chased and executed a wounded communist guerrilla more than 30 years ago, he has done everything in his power to support the communist regime's efforts to strangle human rights and democracy in Vietnam. Senator Kerry has also become one of the most loyal boosters of Hanoi's interests in America. The victorious communists of Vietnam have publicly and repeatedly over the years thanked...

. NEVER FORGET Those who fought for their Freedom and had it taken right out from under them... UNDERSTAND..!!! Little Saigon is now leading the fight against JOHN KERRY's push to kill Freedom once again, right here in the good old USA. Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer of Little Saigon / Van Tran for Assembly Campaign NEVER FORGET

Why I (a Chinese American) Vote For Bush yxm_2004 Consider these facts: · The majority of the minority votes went to democrat party last election. Among minorities, black votes went 9 to 1 in favor of democrat party. Asian voted Republican Party only 3 out of 10. · The most recent poll showed that minority would vote for democrat party pretty much the same way as last election. · A Chinese American student walked into a conference room where the high school Young Republican Club was holding a meeting. Those young republicans immediately thought that Chinese girl stepped into the...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) -- In the teeming markets and cafes of Little Saigon, generational changes and misgivings over his policies have weakened President Bush's support among Vietnamese-Americans. Still, few are embracing his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry.Most people in the nation's largest Vietnamese community respect that Kerry, unlike Bush, risked his life and fought the communists during the Vietnam War. It's what Kerry did when he returned from the battlefield that angers them.Many resent Kerry for protesting the Vietnam War as a young veteran and later, as a senator, engaging with Vietnam's communist leaders and not taking a tougher stance...

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, Oct 17 (AFP) - White House aspirant John Kerry is hailed by his Democratic Party as a Vietnam War hero but the senator is waging an uphill battle convincing 1.5 million Vietnamese Americans to vote for him. Many of them are expected to vote for incumbent George W. Bush in the November 2 presidential polls because decorated naval officer Kerry returned from combat to denounce the United States for going to war against then communist North Vietnam, community leaders say. Another reason Vietnamese Americans are reluctant to vote for Kerry, who spent four months in South Vietnam,...

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is garnering less support among Asian Americans who plan to vote Nov. 2 than his party's nominee in the last election, former Vice President Al Gore, according to a poll.People of Asian ancestry make up about 4.2 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Census Bureau. In 2000, Gore won 55 percent of the vote among this group compared with 41 percent for Bush, according to Voter News Service exit polls cited by the polling firms. Bush "has halved the advantage the Democratic nominee enjoyed in the last election," Brian Nienaber, a research analyst...

Kerry's new Vietnam fix Refugees of communist takeover won't forget, forgive his past By Jan Golab "If you want to be president, you have to talk to everybody in America, and that is what we are going to do," Sen. John Kerry declared last July, when he spoke before the NAACP. It was a dig against President George W. Bush, who had declined an invitation to speak to that organization. But there's no way Kerry will ever speak to America's 1.2 million Vietnamese-Americans, most of whom live in California. Many of California's Vietnamese-Americans will be in Washington, D.C., today to...

DATELINE: SAIGON -- Little Saigon that is. In the largest Vietnamese enclave outside of Vietnam they remember the Vietnam War as the American War. Spanning the three Orange County, California cities of Westminster, Garden Grove and Santa Ana, the residents of this communist-free (by legislation) stronghold have little use for War Hero candidate John Kerry. Chock full of beauty schools, cafes, and ubiquitous Pho restaurants (the classic Vietnamese soup), the pre-communist national flag proudly waves next to the Stars and Stripes above the Veterans memorial at Westminster City Hall. In "America's Most Republican County" (350 elected officials; registration 48.5% Rep./30.6%...

. Vietnamese and Republican go together like beef and cabbage at a party in Santa Ana. .

LOS ANGELES — The John Kerry many Vietnamese-Americans remember is not the hero promoted by the Democratic Party, but the ex-soldier who returned to the United States to denounce the Vietnam War. "His close association and anti-war activity make him known as Mr. Jane Fonda," said Frank Jao, who fought in the South Vietnamese army against the communist North. Jao emigrated to California, and now is the Donald Trump of Orange County's Little Saigon (search), the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam. In this area, 58 percent of the residents are registered Republicans. While older Vietnamese-Americans may see Kerry as...

Prior to the Democratic national convention in Boston, journalists in both mainstream and ethnic press queried Vietnamese in the United States and in Vietnam on their views of the two presidential candidates. The contrast is startling. The majority in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam interviewed by the Associated Press said that they don't pay much attention to current events in the United States because they are poor and struggling to survive. But those who do have time to read, said they support John Kerry because he and Sen. John McCain, both Vietnam veterans, have in the past pushed...

Kerry, Bush accused of ignoring Asian voters BY KARL SCHOENBERGER Knight Ridder Newspapers SAN JOSE, Calif. - (KRT) - Underscoring the sensitivity of ethnic identity and being included in presidential politics, Asian American media outlets are accusing Democrats and Republicans of ignoring Asians in their efforts to attract minority voters. New California Media, a San Francisco-based advocacy organization representing ethic media nationwide, took aim at the Kerry-Edwards campaign last week after the Democratic ticket announced it would spend $1 million on advertising in Latino media and $2 million to reach African Americans, but said nothing about reaching out to Chinese,...