From a repub: Why Asian-Americans Have Turned Their Backs on the Republican Party

[pampango]

The Republican Party’s problems with Latino voters are well documented, but its poor performance with Asian-Americans should be giving the party even greater pause. By and large, Asian-Americans are affluent, well educated, and disproportionately absent from the dreaded 47 percent. Moreover, they once had a history of voting Republican. In 1992, Asian-Americans favored George H. W. Bush over Bill Clinton, and four years later they went for Bob Dole.

Much has changed. Since 2000, Asian-Americans have consistently voted Democratic. In 2008, Asian-Americans gave 62 percent of their vote to Barack Obama. Last November that number jumped to 73 percent even as the president’s margin of victory in the popular vote was cut in half as he garnered a Dukakis-like 41 percent of white voters and slid by more than 13 points among Jewish-Americans.

..its pitch has lacked purchase. Asian-Americans are no longer buying what the GOP is selling. Why the buyers’ remorse?

These days, the GOP strikes Asian-Americans, along with many other Americans, as hostile to science and modernity. For example, George W. Bush severely restricted the use of federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research and cast his very first presidential veto to block enactment of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. More recently, Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia—a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and a prospective Senate candidate—declared that evolution, embryology, and the Big Bang were lies that emanated from the pit of Hell. Apparently, a low-taxes-only agenda is no longer enough to woo a demographic whose median household income exceeds $90,000 by the time that they become third-generation Americans.

Regaining the votes of Asian-Americans, like making inroads with Latino voters, will be a slog for the Republican Party. It is not just about a difference in ethnicity. Rather, it is also a difference in attitude. Asian-Americans are generally more economically liberal than the GOP’s older working- and middle-class evangelical base and are less responsive to a message of unvarnished rugged individualism, despite their relative wealth and attainment. And that is a gap not easily bridged. Indeed, a party whose leadership professes a desire to drown government in a bathtub has little appeal these days to most Americans.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/26/why-asian-americans-have-turned-their-backs-on-the-republican-party.html

Indeed, "a party whose leadership professes a desire to drown government in a bathtub has little appeal these days to most Americans". The republican party's problems go way beyond its lack of appeal to Asian-Americans. Their base keeps driving them further and further to the right and more and more out of touch with most Americans.

[Laelth]

1. Let us hope their rejecting science and reason destroys the Republican Party.

So far, I see little evidence that this is happening.

-Laelth

[Katashi_itto]

2. Good chance the Republicans will destroy everyone.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I will add that Asian-Americans don't appreciate the overt racism against

any group that isn't white, evangelical Christian, and nativist. Every time that the President is insulted and/or demonized for being African-American, Asian-Americans feel a similar chill from republican supporters.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Just a little personal anecdote here.

My daughter-in-law is Asian born and became a citizen 3 years ago. She is 30 years old and prides herself on being a modern woman. She voted Democratic in the last election, which was her first time to vote.