As Clinton launches huge registration effort, community groups focus on Asian Americans,

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As Clinton launches huge registration effort, community groups focus on Asian Americans, via @myhlee


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As Clinton launches registration effort, community groups focus on Asian Americans

Genie Nguyen, center, from Voices of Vietnamese Americans, registers voters at the Eden Center on June 25 in Falls Church, Va. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee July 18 at 11:57 AM

NORCROSS, Ga. — There was a lull just before the weekend rush at Hong Kong Supermarket, which, despite its name, is one of the largest Vietnamese markets in Greater Atlanta. Minh Gia Nguyen, a 37-year-old volunteer with a clipboard of blank voter registration forms in hand, snaked through the aisles in search of eligible voters. She spotted a middle-aged man mulling a selection of gai choy, or Chinese mustard greens.

“Have you registered to vote?” she asked Thanh Ngo in Vietnamese. He hadn’t — and no one had ever pressed him like this to do so. “It’s your benefit as a citizen,” Nguyen said. She rattled off a list of issues that resonate with Asian American voters in polls: health care, education, immigration. “Do it for your family, for your children’s future.”

That day, after 20 years in the United States, Ngo added his name to Georgia’s voter rolls.

Finding eligible voters and persuading them to register has always been part of the strategy of winning elections. Eight years ago, unprecedented voter registration among young people and African Americans helped sweep then-Sen. Barack Obama to his historic victory.

But this year, there are new pockets of potential voters to register — and a new reason to draw them out: Donald Trump. The presumptive Republican nominee’s controversial statements about Muslims, Mexicans and immigrants have alienated legions of nonwhite Americans. The challenge for Democrats is to find those Americans and make sure they are eligible to vote. That’s exactly what they’re doing in an unprecedented effort across the country — including Norcross..........................




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[DCBob]

1. Smart. There is fertile territory among Asian Americans.

Many feel left out of American politics and I'm fairly sure most would lean Dem if they voted especially if Trump is the R nominee.

[riversedge]

2. Hilllary camp is leaving no stone unturned:-)

[AgadorSparticus]

3. I have been saying this for months. Most, if not all, asians I know hate trump

This population is easy to turn dem. They already hate trump. It is just getting them out to vote because of the (often) language barrier.

The HRC campaign is smart to address the Asian population. It is one of the fastest growing.

[JI7]

4. Obama got a higher percentage of Asian votes than hispanic votes both times

Hispanic population is larger so it gets more attention .

But the Asian American vote can be as reliably dem as the black vote so important in terms of turnout.

[riversedge]

6. Thanks for the info.

[Hortensis]

5. Nice to hear. We seldom speak of Asian Americans

except as an unspecified part of a "minorities" category.