ASIANS VOTED FOR MATT FONG IN 98
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From:           	Soya Jung <soya.jung@wairj.org>
To:             	Administrator <Administrator@wairj.org>
Subject:        	FW: Exit Polls in California
Date sent:      	Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:34:50 -0800 


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> From:	Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies
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> Sent:	Wednesday, November 04, 1998 12:40 PM
> Subject:	Exit Polls in California
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> Readers:
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> The following release was forwarded to our office.
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 9:00 PM November 3, 1998		
> CONTACT:  Jon Kaufman, 415/296-2019
> David Lee, 415/397-8133
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> How Chinese American Voters Influenced the Election
> 
> An exit survey of 300 Chinese American voters in San Francisco today
> revealed that two thirds of them voted two-to-one for Matt Fong for
> United States Senate and only 30 percent voted for Barbara Boxer.  Among
> Chinese-American Democrats, the vote was split evenly between the two
> candidates.  As would be expected Chinese-American Republicans voted
> more decisively for Fong--by a three-to-one margin.
> 
> Exit Poll of Chinese Americans in San Francisco
> 
> 			Total		      Democrats	     Republicans
> 
> Fong		67%			51%			76%
> Boxer		30			48			22
> Other		  4			  1			  2
> 
> A poll taken just before the June primary showed that at that time the
> support for Fong was somewhat greater.  In May, Fong was supported by 72
> percent of Chinese American voters compared with only 25 percent for
> Boxer.
> 
> By contrast, Chinese American voters followed party lines in voting for
> Governor.  Seventy-five percent voted for Democrat Gray Davis, 21
> percent voted for Republican Dan Lungren and four percent voted for
> other candidates.  
> 
> The party registration among Chinese-American San Franciscans is
> Democratic, two and a half to one over Republican.  Forty percent are
> registered Democrats, compared with only 17 percent Republican.  Most
> interestingly, however, 38 percent are registered as
> decline-to-state-three times the statewide average.  "This clearly
> states the Chinese community cannot be claimed by either party but it's
> such a significant group that neither party can ignore it," stated David
> Lee executive director of the Chinese American Voters Education
> Committee which commissioned the poll.  "This pattern is true
> nationally, as well as in San Francisco," Lee noted.
> 
> Three hundred Chinese-American voters were interviewed at selected San
> Francisco polling places throughout the day, according to Jon Kaufman of
> Solem & Associates, a public opinion research and public affairs
> consulting agency which conducted the poll with CAVEC. 
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