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For Democratic Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, the community has not only played a crucial role in the run-up to the primaries both by way of physical and financial support but also with their huge concentrations in big and diverse states may have played even a “swing” role.
Indian-Americans are well dotted across the states of New York and New Jersey, the two major states going to Clinton last night; and Illinois, the home state of Obama, also has a large population of the community that has for the most part thrown its weight behind the son of the soil.
In California, especially where the Indian American community is present in large numbers, their voting impact has certainly helped Clinton get this huge state that offered as many as 441 delegates to the national convention.
There is no saying what would have happened to Clinton if she had lost California.
Exit polls in California showed that Clinton did very poorly among the White and African American population but did spectacularly well with the Asian American community by a three-to-one margin and with the Hispanic community by a two-to-one margin.
There are a total of 3 million indians in all of USA. Out of that almost 50 % or perhaps more are on H1-B visa or Green card and not eligible to vote. That leaves 1.5 million scattered across the country. I doubt if that number is large enough to make any impact on anything.
Little India endorses Obama for President http://www.littleindia.com/news/148/ARTICLE/2009/2008-01-30.html
Doubt it. The number of Indians who vote is too small to make any impact.
Thank you. I'm so glad you're here. It's become very tiresome to have election after election be decided by emotional people who refuse to examine the facts objectively. Facts of which the only sane choice becomes Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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