Bill Clinton destroyed the Democratic Party, George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party. The Super-Duper Tuesday yesterday show the divisions so clearly. Do people in the Democratic Party want to go with Clinton, or go for the fresh face and fresh politics that Obama has so far engendered? McCain, Huckabee, and Romney have split the party, the divisions that were engendered by Bush and Rove.
California is Clinton country. Even 1/4 Asians went for Clinton. That's unfortunate, but I was aware that the 80/20 Initiative (an Asian-American group that calls itself non-partisan) had stumped for Clinton because they alleged that Obama hadn't answered their questionnaire about investigating discrimination against Asian-Americans in the workplace. They essentially swift-boated the Asian American votes for Obama in California.
So much for Asian Americans being politically active, this uncritical analysis of 80/20 reinforces the stereotype that Asian Americans are political sheep.
And for your information, I consider all who vote along racial line to be political sheep, and that does include the African American and the European Americans in South Carolina who so neatly split across racial line.
Before you accuse me of cognitive dissonance that Asian Americans have voted for a white person, which is outside of racial line. I am not talking about the race of the candidates. I am talking about how easily we can split the voters themselves into demographics that allow race-baiting to occur. If this was truly a post-racial future, we would be talking about the candidates based on the issues, not on how this demographic group, Latinos and Asians, went for this or that candidate.
It would be more lovely if they were all like the white voters, almost split exactly between each candidate. That was the most remarkable and enlightening accomplishment that California has given us thus far, the silly partisan minorities aside.
Bah.
California is Clinton country. Even 1/4 Asians went for Clinton. That's unfortunate, but I was aware that the 80/20 Initiative (an Asian-American group that calls itself non-partisan) had stumped for Clinton because they alleged that Obama hadn't answered their questionnaire about investigating discrimination against Asian-Americans in the workplace. They essentially swift-boated the Asian American votes for Obama in California.
So much for Asian Americans being politically active, this uncritical analysis of 80/20 reinforces the stereotype that Asian Americans are political sheep.
And for your information, I consider all who vote along racial line to be political sheep, and that does include the African American and the European Americans in South Carolina who so neatly split across racial line.
Before you accuse me of cognitive dissonance that Asian Americans have voted for a white person, which is outside of racial line. I am not talking about the race of the candidates. I am talking about how easily we can split the voters themselves into demographics that allow race-baiting to occur. If this was truly a post-racial future, we would be talking about the candidates based on the issues, not on how this demographic group, Latinos and Asians, went for this or that candidate.
It would be more lovely if they were all like the white voters, almost split exactly between each candidate. That was the most remarkable and enlightening accomplishment that California has given us thus far, the silly partisan minorities aside.
Bah.
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