{"id":14170,"date":"2012-10-02T01:10:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:10:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-02T02:10:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T02:10:05","slug":"Indian-Americans-are-with-Obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14170","title":{"rendered":"Indian Americans are with Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian Americans are solidly behind President Barack Obama, more so now than in 2008. And over half of them are unshakably with the Democratic Party.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But there is hope yet for Republicans. A lot of Indian Americans also count themselves as independent or non-partisan.<\/strong> But is Mitt Romney going to get them? Unlikely.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A substantial 68% of Indian Americans who are likely to vote are backing Obama, and only 5% are with Romney, says 2012 National Asian American Survey.<\/p>\n

This is way higher than the Asian American average of 43% for Obama<\/strong>, and the national average of 48% (this number changes every day, mostly upwards).<\/p>\n

Indian Americans are solidly with Obama, and the new poll is only one of several making that point. That hasn\u2019t been in dispute, not in a very long time.<\/p>\n

But some people have noticed the beginnings of shift toward the Republican Party, which has exhibited willingness to welcome them \u2014 the Tampa convention was one clear evidence.<\/p>\n

Ishwar Singh, a Sikh led the invocation on Day Two at the convention, and Yash Wadhwa, a Wisconsin Indian American breathlessly related his success story at the same convention.<\/p>\n

“These are isolated cases, and anecdotal,” director of the survey, Karthick Ramakrishnan, political science professor at University of California, told Hindustan Times.<\/p>\n

The survey didn’t find any evidence \u2014 scientific evidence, Ramakrishnan insisted \u2014 of the Indian Americans shifting in any perceptible manner to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

If anything, Indian American were the last to identify with Republicans \u2014 3% to the Filipinos at 27%, Vietnamese at 20%, Japanese at 18% and the Chinese at 9%.<\/strong> This is despite the fact that the only two Indian American governors in the history of the US are both Republican: Nikky Haley of South Carolina and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. But that has not helped move the needle.<\/p>\n

If some Indian Americans are making that journey<\/strong> \u2014 however few in numbers \u2014 it’s because of the typically Republican instinct to protect their prosperity from taxes.<\/p>\n

Or so Rao Polavarapu, an Indiana Indian American software engineer, told this reporter at the Tampa convention of the Republican party last August.<\/p>\n

Source www.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/em>
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