I’m of Asian Indian origin. I’ll say first off that it’s hard to box all asians in a group because it’s a pretty wide ranging group, like Americans are. There are the rich and well educated who work in high tech and there are the poor illegals who work and live in ethnic communities. There are those, like me, who are born in the US and are American from the ground up. There are also some who immigrate to the US and assimilate well into society.
Firstly, a lot of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos etc etc don’t consider Asian Indians to be like them at all. I don’t think a lot of Asian Indian immigrants swung the vote over to Obama because a lot of them don’t become US citizens. Many want to retain their Indian citizenship so that they can return to India as they please, and if you ask them what they think about US politics, many say that it’s not their country and they don’t care. One of my coworkers was telling me how terrible it is in America because in India he had a large mansion and two servants. This is a well educated Indian with a masters degree from MIT. In the business world a lot of them don’t care much outside of the almighty dollar. I guess this could make them somewhat conservative but many of them don’t pay taxes on all of their income. Asking for payment in cash is common in indian owned businesses. It’s just how they do things. There is rampant tax cheating. It’s not their country. They don’t care.
As for Chinese, Japanese etc. I think the super PAC ads showing China plotting to take over the world did a LOT of damage. It may be the truth that China is plotting to take over the world, but it sure didn’t help advertising this to Asian Americans and then saying, “vote for me.” Truth is that a lot of them are loyal to mother China. There have been quite a few incidents where Chinese US citizens have been caught spying for China, and God alone knows how many haven’t been caught and/or publicized in the media.
It is a fact that in general, immigrant citizens vote democrat. This is because they view Republicans as being anti-immigrant, pro-white and nativist. Most immigrants in my experience are in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens. It’s a numbers game. If there are more of “them” than there are of “us” (US born) then “they” get to vote themselves into power. Obama granting amnesty via his DREAM act executive order helped a lot in this regard. And finally, most of the world is socialist and immigrants want the USA to be more like “home.” Free healthcare is a big deal, free this, free that, the rich will pay. They don’t like guns either. They are pro islam too and think that for their countries to succeed that America must be knocked down a peg or two. One only has to look at someone like Fareed Zakaria to see how they think.
So what’s the solution? Not amnesty, not more H-1B, not more immigration. Immigration from Europe or Australia won’t help either, they like socialism too. Maybe it ought to not be so easy to become a citizen. With all of the incidences of spying and general disloyalty to the USA there’s clearly something wrong with the current procedure. But before EVERY election there is a mad rush to speed up naturalization. Americans need to wake up and take this country back, IMO.