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Asian Americans aren’t all members of one political party

Written by Gil Asakawa on December 10, 2008 — Leave a Comment

The national organization APIA Vote made it abundantly clear during both the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention, where they did a lot of recruiting and convened caucuses: Asian American Pacific Islanders are not involved enough in politics. We’re not great at getting the vote out, we don’t participate as much as we […]

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As the long campaign comes to a close

Written by Gil Asakawa on November 1, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Erin and I have seen Barack Obama speak three times. We were at Invesco Field for the climactic speech he gave during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. We were in the audience for his interview with CNN during the Unity Conference of journalists of color in Chicago in July. And, almost two years ago, […]

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