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  • Subject: Why is a bloc vote so powerful?
  • Date: 2007-05-29 
    Dear JIm: Your "exception" is well taken. That's why 80-20 is non-partisan and it decides whom to endorse by very objective standards and with a completely democratic process. The stadrads are

    1) how the presidential candidate answers our questionnaire, and 2) what the candidate and his/her

    party has done for the AsAm community in the last 4 years. The process is through a Endorsement Convention whose delegates are elected by our members. The "delegateship" MUST be compoased ob 1/3 R, 1/3 D and 1/3 Independents. Any 8-=2- dues-[aying member can run for a delgate position.

    How more open, democrataic and objective can the process be? To summarize, the candidate/party party that is most willing to share our concerns and act on it gets our support. Thanks for your wonderful comment. SB
    
     
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  Once a month, you'll read here political secrets that made Cuban 
    Americans & Jewish Ams who are so small in numbers and yet so powerful 
    politically.  This series is designed to empower YOU politically so that 
    TOGETHER we'll win equal opportunity and justice in America.    .  S. B. Woo 
               Subject:  Why is a bloc vote so powerful? 
       David Broder, America's most respected political columnist, stated that 
    a bloc vote is "one of the unnoticed glories of American life."  Why? 
    Because a bloc vote can make a small minority politically powerful 
    enough     to protect themselves. 
       A bloc vote is, in the short run, much more effective than giving millions 
    of $$$ to politicians and/or registering tens of thousands of new voters 
    each year.  Here is why. 
       One year, a Democratic presidential nominee (DPN) was running against 
    a Republican nominee (RPN) in a certain state which has 12 million 
    voters.  That state had a small Jewish Am. community of 1 million votes.  
    It could deliver a bloc vote of 80-20 to its endorsed candidate.  The 
    general community had 11 millions votes but didn't practice bloc votes.  
       The DPN decided to focus on the general community.  The RPC decided 
    to focus on the Jewish community.  When the ballots were counted, the 
    DPN won the general community by a margin of 52% to 48%.  (Recall that 
    the last two presidential elections resulted in much smaller margin of 
    difference than that.)  Hence the DPN had a 4% advantage in the 
    11 million votes, or a winning margin of 440,000 votes. 
       The RPN won the Jewish vote by a margin of 80% to 20%.  Hence the 
    RPC had a 60% advantage in 1 million voters.  That is a net advantage of 
    600,000 votes.  As a result, the RPN won!  
       Wow, the power of a bloc vote! 
       Actually, the above is NOT about a "certain state and Jewish Ams."  It is 
    about "California and Asian Ams."  AsAms in CA are 8% of CA's 12 
     million votes which are just about1 million votes!  The story is about our 
    political power     when we practice a bloc vote! 
       All presidential candidates understand the power of a bloc vote.  That 
    was why 9 of the 11 presidential candidates in 2004 answered 80-20's 
    questionnaire in 2004 with YES/YES/YES.  Their promises were in writing 
    and signed!  Go see the signatures and what they had promised AsAms: 
      http://www.80-20initiative.net/preselect2004.html  
       The above is the proof of the power of "Political Secret I." 
       Bush and Sharpton were the two who didn't respond positively.  
    Bush felt he could give up on CA and spend his money & effort more cost 
    effectively in Florida and Ohio.  Too bad for us in 2004.  BUT!  2008 is a 
    very different year.  
       GOP can no longer count on the "solid" South and Mid-West.  Many 
    political experts have predicted that a RPN must try to win in CA.  
    Hence, GOP will have to either work with us or lose Calif and with it the 
    White House. 
       WITH YOUR HELP, 80-20 aims to use a bloc vote to get all presidential 
    candidates of 2008 to pay much more attention to our concerns! 
       More political secrets to come!  Forward this SECRET now!  Ask 
    your friends to join us in a bloc vote in 2008. 
       Was this email informative?  Have you questions?  Post your feedback at 
     http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html . I need 
    your feedback!      Thanks. 
      
    S. B. Woo, 
    President, 80-20 EF (80-20 EF can tell you political secrets, but may NOT  
    endorse political candidates.  Only 80-20 PAC can endorse. )