Four years later, the 2020 Asian American Voter Survey/AAPI Data poll showed that Biden is ahead of Trump Trump 55%-30%. Vietnamese communities are voting at a margin of 48% Trump-36% Biden, making them the biggest pro-Trump Asian group. Trump has, however, lost a few percentage points in Chinese American votes with 20% showing him support...
The 2020 Census count ended prematurely last week. To put it more precisely, the U.S. Census Bureau stopped counting Americans after 2:59 a.m. Pacific Time on Oct. 16, even though it had previously declared that it would need until Oct. 31 to ensure an accurate and complete count. This news came as a shock to...
Indian Americans have not historically trended Republican, Huang points out, but neither have they been courted by Republicans — until now. Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi share similar political proclivities, Huang notes. Since coming to power in 2014, Modi has transformed India from "a secularist-dominated, left-leaning political landscape to implement a Hindutva-inspired, right-wing...
The 2020 Census count ended prematurely this week. To put it more precisely, the U.S. Census Bureau stopped counting Americans after 2:59 a.m. Pacific Time on Oct. 16, even though it had previously declared that it would need until Oct. 31 to ensure an accurate and complete count. This news came as a shock to...
According to state data, as of September 4, San Bernardino County had the second highest percent increase in voter registrations in the state. Riverside County had the fifth largest. U.C. Riverside political science professor, Francisco Pedraza says this regional rise may be due to decades of work done by community organizations. “Those organizations that formed...
Less than a month is left for America to vote for its next president, and for a while now, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden camps have been making attempts to woo the significant Indian-American vote bank in the US. And according to a representative online survey by Indian-American Attitudes Survey (IAAS) and analytics firm...
The 2020 US presidential election is poised to be the watershed moment in Indian-American (IA) politics. The significance of this election lies in the stratification of IA votes. Once a solid Democratic voting block, IA voters have been progressively turning away from the Democratic Party. A recent Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) survey suggests that...
Do you trust your state officials more than feds, dream of California independence, or support breaking the U.S. into regional republics? Then you’re a traditional American patriot. Or do you cling to hopes of national unity, or believe in compromise to preserve our union of 330 million? Then you’re part of the problem. The frightening...
"66 percent of Indian Americans currently favour Vice President Biden, 28 percent favour President Donald Trump, and 6 percent were undecided. In the 2016 presidential election, 77percent voted for Secretary Hillary Clinton, and 16 percent voted for President Trump. If the remaining undecided voters broke in the same pattern as those who have made up...
The narrative (as the report notes) of this shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP, is based on the bonhomie between Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as criticisms of the Modi government by Democrat lawmakers (including Mr. Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris). In fact, a recent survey report by AAPI...
A report from the UC Riverside Center for Social Innovation finds disproportionately high discipline for Black and Native American students in Inland Empire schools. "These racial disparities persist, even though there have been some notable reductions in overall suspension rates due to changes in state policy and local practices," reads the report, "State of Education...
For Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos, the COVID-19 pandemic has been great for business, leading to record profits and an increased market share. Perhaps more significantly, the pandemic has accelerated the reshuffling of transnational corporate power with enormous consequences for the future of work, labor, and the global economy. Amazon’s immense power and influence...
Ending the count abruptly means there will be less complete data, especially “when it comes to having a detailed understanding of the resident population of California,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of the UC Riverside’s Center for Social Innovation and director of the Inland Empire Census Complete Count Committee. “When you have more time, you are...
Indian-Americans as a population have always leaned towards the Democratic party in US presidential elections. The choice of Kamala Harris – the first-ever person of Indian origin to be featured on major party ticket – as the vice presidential candidate for the Democrats would have you thinking that the Indian-American vote might be even more...
A report from the UC Riverside Center for Social Innovation finds disproportionately high discipline for Black and Native American students in Inland Empire schools. “These racial disparities persist, even though there have been some notable reductions in overall suspension rates due to changes in state policy and local practices,” reads the report, “ State of...
Vietnamese Americans were more likely to vote for President Trump than other Asian Americans, according to the results of a national survey published in September. The survey, conducted by APIAVote, AAPI Data and Asian Amerians Advancing Justice, found that 48% of Vietnamese Americans were inclined to vote for Trump, while 36% were inclined to vote...
American Politics and Mass Political Behavior associate Professor at the University of California Riverside, Loren Collingwood, said the division on race ideas began in 2008, during the Obama administration. “Political scientists have investigated this a lot, and it goes back to the 2008 election when Obama got in,” Collingwood told Scriberr News. “And then the...
The November election has yet again thrust the Asian American community into the middle of a contentious affirmative action fight. This time, it's in California, with Proposition 16, a statewide ballot measure that would restore race-conscious decision-making in public education admissions, employment and contracting — practices that were banned in 1996. The initiative has won...
Texas' fast-growing Indian American community is poised to play a decisive role in the 2020 election, reflecting a profound demographic shift that’s playing out in the emerging political battlegrounds of suburban Dallas and Houston. The state is now home to the second-largest Indian American population in the U.S. — a development, to be clear, that...
United States Vice President Mike Pence will face off against Kamala Harris, running mate to Democrat nominee Joe Biden, in this year’s vice presidential debate at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Wednesday evening. The debate will be moderated by Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief of USA Today. The vice-presidential debate...
