Asian-Americans 'Too Busy' to Vote

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Only three in 10 Asian-Americans who were eligible to vote have cast ballots in midterm elections since 1998, a far lower turnout rate than that of white and black voters, a new Pew Research Center report reveals.
In the 2010 midterms, Asian-American turnout was 31 percent, the same as for Hispanics but below whites (49 percent) and blacks (44 percent).
Research shows that people with higher levels of education are more likely to vote in U.S. elections, and 47 percent of Asian-American eligible voters in 2010 had a college education, higher than for whites (31 percent), blacks (18 percent), and Hispanics (16 percent).

Yet Asian-Americans lagged behind whites, blacks, and Hispanics among college-educated eligible voters who cast a ballot. Just 40 percent of college-educated Asian-Americans voted in 2010, compared to 64 percent of whites, 57 percent of blacks, and 50 percent of Hispanics.
"So why the lower voter turnout among Asian-Americans? Among registered voters who didn't go to the polls in 2010, Asian-Americans were most likely to say they were too busy to vote," Pew reported. "About 37 percent of Asian-Americans chose 'too busy, conflicting work or school schedule' as a reason for not voting," compared to about 25 percent of whites, blacks, and Hispanics.
An estimated 9 million Asian-Americans are eligible to vote in 2014, accounting for about 4 percent of all eligible voters.

Half of Asian-Americans are Democrats or lean Democratic, while just 28 percent are Republican or lean Republican, according to Pew.
In 2012, President Obama garnered 73 percent of their vote to Mitt Romney's 26 percent.
The six largest groups of Asian-Americans by country of origin are from China, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.