Why do Asian Americans increasingly vote for Democrats?

[soulflower]

Charles Murray's view:

...yet something has happened to define conservatism in the minds of Asians as deeply unattractive, despite all the reasons that should naturally lead them to vote for a party that is identified with liberty, opportunity to get ahead, and economic growth. I propose that the explanation is simple. Those are not the themes that define the Republican Party in the public mind. Republicans are seen by Asians—as they are by Latinos, blacks, and some large proportion of whites—as the party of Bible-thumping, anti-gay, anti-abortion creationists. Factually, that’s ludicrously inaccurate. In the public mind, except among Republicans, that image is taken for reality.

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/11/why...s-republicans/

[cprenegade]

He makes a very sound argument. The Asian american population would most likely be very much in tune with the republican fiscal conservative policy if a) they practiced what they preach, and b) they were not often drowned out by the evangilistic extreme of the party. But thinking out of the box, imagine how well a true third party that adapted a less socially extreme platform, and a more fiscally conservative platform could do?

[Calamari]

With the high cultural emphasis on education, they are likely to have taken an economics class or two. This is prophylactic against falling for failed Republican economic ideas, which appeal to simpletons because of their simplicity.