#14: The Forgotten Asian-American Vote
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In 1992, George Bush won the Asian-American vote by 24%, but in 2008, Barack Obama won it by 47%. With the potential to help both parties, why are these voters largely being ignored this election year? Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor with the Futuro Media Group, leads a discussion with Boston City Council President Michelle Wu, and Jeff Yang, featured contributor at CNN.
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| 0:00.0 | When my parents were setting expectations of what they wanted me to do, it was always get a job that pays a lot, that's stable, and won't get you in trouble. |
| 0:08.0 | Basically the opposite of politics. |
| 0:10.0 | Everything go away. Welcome to In Thethick, a podcast about politics and the race to the White House in 2016. |
| 0:20.0 | We're the show that examines this week's political coverage through a diverse lens with different perspectives. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Julio Ricalo Guarela filling in for Maria Inohosa. |
| 0:29.7 | Joining me in Boston is the president of the Boston City Council Michelle Wu. |
| 0:35.1 | Welcome to the show Michelle Madam President, what I call you. |
| 0:38.2 | Michelle. |
| 0:39.2 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:41.0 | And joining us from Newark is Jeff Yang featured contributor at CNN. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome Jeff. Thank you. |
| 0:47.0 | We've been wanting to do this particular episode for months, |
| 0:50.0 | but there have been primaries every week. |
| 0:52.0 | The GOP coming in terms with Donald Trump as a candidate here, all the wonky delegate math with the Democrats there. |
| 0:59.0 | Finally, this week, a break during this insane primary season. |
| 1:03.8 | So at Futura Media Group, we produce a bunch of diverse programs and the idea for this |
| 1:08.5 | week's episode of In The Thic came from a conversation we had with a team at America |
| 1:12.3 | by the numbers. A PBS show we produce about |
| 1:14.8 | America's Changing Demographics. As part of their next PBS special, they're going to be talking |
| 1:19.7 | about the Agent American vote in the 2016 election, we thought it would be a great to have an |
| 1:24.4 | extended discussion about this topic which to be honest with you has been largely ignored |
| 1:30.0 | this election season and lucky us we have two very knowledgeable and |
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