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Mr. Woo:Barack Obama has been putting tons of money on one of his TV ads. The movie was about half minute long, and was targeting China and Chinese people in America. Here was part of what he said in that ad:"If your plant is moved to China, you loose your job, your pension, and your insurance...We should give money to the enterprises that invest in the United States of America... Enough is enough." This has been frequently broadcasted on one local TV station at 6 times in one hour this morning. I have not seen any outrageous statement like that in any other candidates' advertise.
I see this as his political retaliation to Asian voters, and especially their political leaders (he should know who these leaders are). And I can almost sense that the election results will eventually show that people are NOT going to give the power to a narrow - minded person like him. This ad has totally changed my mind about him.
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Q: How dare 80-20 claim credit for building a 3 to 1 bloc vote?
There are 3 million Asian Am. voters, you don't have an email list
to reach 75% of 3 million voters, do you?
A: Blacks have voted about 9 to 1 for the Democratic presidential
nominee for decades. Jewish Ams deliver a 8 to 2 bloc vote. Neither
the black nor the Jewish community has large email lists. That is
not how a bloc vote is created.
Q: So how did 80-20 create a bloc vote?
A: Have you ever attended large meetings with tens or hundreds of
people? At these meetings, if 20% or more of the people speak
enthusiastically for a given idea and provide good reasons while the
opposition is weak, 80% of the people will end up voting for that idea.
So 80-20's email list is used to create that critical mass of enthusiastic
supporters and arm them with good reasons in voting for a given
candidate. After that, their daily interaction with other Asia Am voters,
aided by commercial ads paid for by 80-20, will naturally produce the
bloc vote. Hence, most of the Asian Ams. who vote for the candidate
endorsed by 80-20 may not even have heard of 80-20. That is how a
bloc vote is built.
Q: Why are some Asian Am. against a bloc vote?
A: Most new immigrants don't realize that in America, every racial
and/or interest group advocates a bloc vote. They include the
Democratic Party, Republican Party, blacks, Jewish Ams, Hispanics,
Cuban Ams, women's organizations, gays, labor unions, corporations…,
etc. These groups have practiced bloc vote all along. Persuasion for a
bloc vote is not necessary for them. In contrast, 80-20 needs to help
new Asian immigrants climb a steep learning curve about American
politics. Hence 80-20 must explicitly & repeatedly advocate and
discuss the need for a bloc vote.
What if we don't? Our children will continue to face a higher admission
standard to elite,schools. Our adults will continue to face a higher
"admission" standard to good jobs, e.g. managerial positions
and Federal judgeships.
Q: Are things improving owing to 80-20's effort?
A: Definitely. Here are facts that you've personally witnessed in
recent months:
11/29/07, 80-20 began to pressure Sen. Clinton with a "Call to Action."
12/11, Sen. Clinton replied with all yeses, while suggesting rightful
modifications.
12/12, Sen. Edwards signed with all yeses.
12/31, Governor Richardson signed with all yeses.
12/28, 80-20 began to get Sen. Obama on board with a "Call To Action
-- Defeat Obama."
1/18/08, 80-20 held a press conference in SF endorsing Sen. Clinton for
the Calif. Democratic primary.
1/31, Sen. Obama replied with all yeses, while suggesting modifications
to strengthen his commitment to the Asian Am. community.
Q: What about media attention to Asian Americans?
A: Definitely increasing. "Goggle or Yahoo" to see how many articles have
been written in the mainstream media about the Asian Am. bloc vote
since Super Tuesday. They lack understanding of the Asian Am.
community owing to the long "benign neglect" by both media and
political parties. Hence, the initial coverage may even be bad. An
example is the CNN's Anderson Cooper report. But under 80-20's
leadership we've reacted civilly but strongly. See our petition site:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=tHYZlyz32wF0OLEZacHNWA_3d_3d
Things will improve. A new article in Time Magazine is coming.
Another by a news group called the New America Media is coming
Support 80-20 EF financially please.
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org .
Post your comments at
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html .
Respectfully yours,
S. B. Woo
President, 80-20 Educational Foundation.
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PS: For those who forgot why a bloc vote is so powerful, here is the
illustration for the 5th time. :-)
Two candidates run against each other in a political division, which
for simplicity is assumed to have two constituent groups only. One
group has 1 million votes (8%) and the other has 11 million votes
(92%). Candidate A, a novice, courts the larger group, not being
aware that the smaller constituent group has the internal political
cohesion to deliver a bloc vote in the ratio of 8 to 2 while the larger
group does not. When the ballots are open, candidate A wins the
larger community by the ratio of 52/48. The margin of difference is
4%. Since the larger group has 11 millions votes, 4% of 11 million
votes provides a winning margin of 440,000 votes to candidate A.
His opponent, candidate B, is a seasoned politician. She courts the
smaller group and wins that community by a ratio of 80 to 20. The
difference between 80% and 20% is 60%. 60% of 1 million votes is
600,000 votes. As a result, candidate B wins the election by
(600,000 – 440,000) or 160,000 votes.
8% of the vote is what Asian Ams have in Calif, which has by far the
largest impact in a presidential election. 80-20 has designed the
above strategy to increase our GROUP political clout since 10
years ago!